SOME REMARKS ON PERRY’S REFLEXIVE CONTENT AND COGNITIVE SIGNIFICANCE
In this paper I present and discuss the solution offered by John Perry to Frege’s Puzzle in terms of the reflexive content of utterances. I first discuss his purported solution for the indexical version of the Puzzle, and argue that reflexive content cannot explain the triviality of some utterances....
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| Format: | Article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication date: | 2017 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Institution: | UFG |
| Repository: | Revista philósophos |
| Language: | English |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.revistas.ufg.br:article/40935 |
| Online Access: | https://revistas.ufg.br/philosophos/article/view/40935 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Reference cognitive significance reflexive content Frege’s Puzzle. Referência valor cognitivo conteúdo reflexivo Problema de Frege. |
| Summary: | In this paper I present and discuss the solution offered by John Perry to Frege’s Puzzle in terms of the reflexive content of utterances. I first discuss his purported solution for the indexical version of the Puzzle, and argue that reflexive content cannot explain the triviality of some utterances. Hence, it is not the sort of thing that accounts for cognitive significance adequately. I then discuss Perry’s solution for the Puzzle as arising for proper names. I argue that, even if reflexive content does explain cognitive significance in this case, it does not do so in terms of the meaning of expressions, as Perry originally intended. |
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