Outscoping and Discourse Threat

Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 57 (4):413-426 (2014)
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Sometimes we give truth-conditions for sentences of a discourse in other terms. According to Agustín Rayo, when doing so it is sometimes legitimate to use the terms of that very discourse, so long as the terms do not occur in the truth-conditions themselves. I argue that giving truth-conditions in this "outscoping" way prevents one from answering "discourse threat" (for example, the threat of indeterminacy).

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10.1080/0020174x.2014.904988

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