ISSN:
1572-8374
Keywords:
belief-generating mechanism
;
broadly logically determinate statement
;
description
;
evaluation
;
extensional natural statement
;
intensional natural statement
;
interpretation
;
meaning
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Linguistics and Literary Studies
Notes:
Abstract Building on the work of Sproule, Fahnestock and Secor, and Kruger, we present a specific typology of statements. In particular, we distinguish broadly logically determinate statements, descriptions, interpretations, and evaluations. We generate this typology through a series of dichotomous divisions of statements. We divide statements first into the broadly logically determinate versus contingent, the contingent into the evaluational versus natural, and the natural into the extensional versus intensional. We show that the rationales for these distinctions are well motivated and philosophically important. In particular, we argue that identifying the type of a statement is relevant to showing whether or not the sources vouching for it render the statement epistemically acceptable.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1007846431353
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