| Minimalism, Psychological Reality, Meaning and Use |
| Henry Jackman |
| Gerhard Preyer and George Peter (eds), Context-Sensitivity and Semantic Minimalism: Essays in Semantics and Pragmatics. Oxford University Press, Forthcoming. |
| Area 1 Philosophy of Language |
| Area 2 Philosophy of Mind |
| Keywords Minimalism Contextualism Meaning Use Cappellan Lepore |
| http://www.yorku.ca/hjackman/papers/minimalism.pdf |
| "Semantic Minimalists" holds that there are virtually no semantically context sensitive expressions in English. In particular, they claim that the semantics for terms like "red", "tall", "ready", "every", or "know" are not (contrary to many popular semantic theories) context sensitive. While minimalism strikes many as obviously false, it will be argued here that the view is more plausible than commonly assumed if one accepts the 'normative' conception of the relation between meaning and use characteristic of the literature on semantic externalism. |
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