• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Holisme et homophonie
  • Beteiligte: Arseneault, Madeleine; Stainton, Robert
  • Erschienen: Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2000
  • Erschienen in: Dialogue
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1017/s0012217300006429
  • ISSN: 0012-2173; 1759-0949
  • Schlagwörter: Philosophy
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  • Beschreibung: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>We believe that, granting radical holism, a homophonie (or disquotational) definition of truth for a language achieves no progress towards guaranteeing the material equivalence of the left- and right-hand-side sentences for T-sentences. In order to avoid paradoxes such as the antinomy of the liar, Tarski requires that the metalanguage be semantically richer than the object language. For a radical holist, the difference in semantic powers of the meta- and object languages means that homophony is no guarantee of synonymy; therefore, worries about the indeterminacy of translation still apply.</jats:p>