Meaning‐Constitutivity

Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 50 (6):559-574 (2007)
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I discuss some problems faced by the meaning‐inconsistency view on the liar and sorites paradoxes which I have elsewhere defended. Most of the discussion is devoted to the question of what a defender of the meaning‐inconsistency view should say about semantic competence

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10.1080/00201740701698506

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