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Author: Laura Schroeter
Title: Gruesome Diagonals
Publication Info: Ann Arbor, Michigan: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan University Library
Philosophers' Imprint
August 2003
Source: Gruesome Diagonals
Laura Schroeter
Ann Arbor, MI: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan, University Library
vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 1-23, August 2003
Abstract: Frank Jackson and David Chalmers have suggested that the diagonal intensions defined by their two-dimensional framework can play the two key roles of Fregean senses: they provide a priori accessible extension conditions for a representation and they provide the identity conditions for meanings and thought contents. In this paper, I clarify the nature of the psychological abilities that are needed to underwrite the first role. I then argue that these psychological abilities are not sufficiently stable or cognitively salient to individuate meanings or thought contents.
Keywords:
philosophy of language
metaphysics
theory of reference
David Chalmers
Frank Jackson
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3521354.0003.003
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