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Cogito

Volume 9, Issue 2, August 1995

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Christopher Evers

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Stuart Brown

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Mike Fuller

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Alan Chalmers

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Robin Le Poidevin

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Robin Attfield

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Michael Durrant’s rejection is examined of Frege’s and Wittgenstein’s thesis that a name has meaning only in the context of a proposition (the Context Principle). Durrant argues that in two ways the Context Principle makes it impossible for a hearer to determine the meaning of a name, for such identification would involve both an infinite regress and a vicious circle of reasoning. I reply that a finite (rather than infinite) set of propositions could suffice; and that making corrigible assumptions allows people to believe propositions and thus to understand names ahead of knowing what the propositions are about. Durrant’s arguments, then, are inconclusive. Since, however, names can be bestowed and their meanings learned in and through acts of nonpropositional naming, then, unless special senses of ‘name’ and‘proposition’ are intended, the Context Principle is false.
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John Haldane

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James Lenman

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John Lippitt

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Adam Czerniawski

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Thomas Johansen

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Ross Cogan, Martin Swanson

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Anthony Rudd

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