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URL:https://www.ub.edu/grc_logos/activities/on-meaning-without-use/
SUMMARY:On Meaning Without Use
DESCRIPTION:This paper defends the use-based metasemantic project against t
 he problem of meaning without use\, which allegedly shows the predictions 
 of use-based metasemantic accounts to be indeterminate with respect to unu
 sably long or complex expressions. This criticism is commonly taken to be 
 decisive\, prompting various retreats and contributing to the project&rsqu
 o\;s eventual decline. Using metasemantic conventionalism as a case study\
 , I argue the following: either such expressions do not belong to used lan
 guages or their meanings are uniquely determined by use. Thus\, the allege
 d problem of meaning without use offers no challenge to the use-based meta
 semantic project generally\, nor to conventionalism in particular.
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
LOCATION:Seminari de Filosofia UB
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