Next meeting:
Tuesday, 14 October, 5.00-6.30pm, Woolley S361
Reading:
Carnap, Rudolf (1947) "The Method of Intension" in Meaning and Necessity
Abstract:
"Carnap attempts to develop a new method for analyzing the meanings of
linguistic expressions as well as to lay a semantic foundation for modal logic.
Carnap maintains that his new method consists in doing away with the
traditional assumption that linguistic expressions name concrete or abstract
entities and in replacing it with the ascription to them of intensions and
extensions. He states that linguistic expressions designate their intensions
and extensions: every designation refers to both an intension and an extension.
The intensional entities to which individual constants or descriptions,
predicates, and declarative sentences are respectively said to refer are
individual concepts, properties and propositions, the corresponding extensions
being individuals, classes and truth-values. Carnap insists that intensions,
including individual concepts, are objectively real, not mental concepts.
However, he rejects the charge of hypostatization: individual concepts and
properties and propositions must not be considered as things, but this does not
prevent them from being genuine objective entities." (Wikipedia)
Reading available from:
http://hplinguistics.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/86461972/Carnap%2C%20Rudolp%20%27Meaning%20and%20Necessity%27%20%282nd%20ed%29%28original%29.pdf
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