Volume 53, 2018
Philosophy of Language
Eli Dresner
Pages 23-27
Baking Measures and Propositions
In the first section of this paper I consider the practice of volume-measurement in baking, and I distinguish between two measurement schemes that can be extracted from this practice. In the second section I argue that (i) the ascription of propositional content to utterances (and mental states) bears intuitive affinity to one of these schemes, that (ii) extant accounts of propositions are in the mold of the other scheme, and that therefore (iii) an alternative conception of propositions is called for.