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How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science: To the Icy ...
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George A. Reisch - 2005 - History
Carnap responded that his conception of semantic truth had nothing to do with an Aristotelian metaphysics of things and properties:
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Grice discusses briefly Tarski's conception of truth in Way of Words, and he is amusing, as often (if not always).
Grice is worried that Tarski's conception needs a tweak to discuss things like:
"What the policeman said, 'that monkeys can talk', is true".
versus:
"What the policeman said was true".
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I think one can reasonably say that Carnap's "Empiricism Semantics and Ontology" was primarily intended to explain how one can do semantics without engaging in metaphysics.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I don't attach much importance to Carnap mentioning Aristotle here.
Carnap is not examining Aristotle here he is simply using him in much the way I did when I earlier connected Carnap with Aristotle, just because Aristotle is the first and greatest philosopher with whom we associate the term metaphysics (if only because the term was not coined before Aristotle).
I still press the case that there is an interesting enquiry and debate about whether or how much of Aristotle's metaphysics (and also about how much of Grice's Aristotelian studies) must be construed as the kind of metaphysics which Carnap eschewed.
Carnap doesn't so far as I know get into these kinds of question (is that bit of so-called metaphysics really metaphysics) its just a quirk of mine, partly for the purposes of fantasiing about a Carnap/Grice conversation.
RBJ