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- معلومة اضافية
- بيانات النشر:
Stockholms universitet, Filosofiska institutionen
Swedish Collegium of Advanced Study, Sweden
Oxford
- الموضوع:
2015
- Collection:
Stockholm University: Publications (DiVA)
- نبذة مختصرة :
This chapter discusses the application of formal methods from social choice theory to the metasemantic question of whether radical interpretation is possible. Radical interpretation involves deducing semantic truths from non-semantic truths by appeal to certain a priori principles or criteria, such as the principle of charity. A familiar view is that the intended interpretation is the one that best meets a combination of constraints. It is suggested that this situation can be modelled as follows: each constraint determines a binary relation on the set X of interpretations (‘x is at least as good as y with respect to the ith constraint’) that is transitive and complete. The radical interpreter’s task is to determine an overall ordering as a function from the profile of individual orderings. The application of Arrow’s theorem in this context is discussed.
- File Description:
application/pdf
- ISBN:
978-0-19-968490-8
0-19-968490-1
- Relation:
Weighing and Reasoning : Themes from the Philosophy of John Broome, p. 52-60; orcid:0000-0002-3061-6143; http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-139780; urn:isbn:9780199684908
- الرقم المعرف:
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199684908.003.0004
- Rights:
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
- الرقم المعرف:
edsbas.ACD92171
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