Extending the Project of Analysis
Extending the Project of Analysis
This chapter presents analytic philosophy as investigating semantic relations between target vocabularies, such as modal, normative, and intentional vocabularies; and favored base vocabularies, for instance empirical or naturalistic ones. It introduces the project of meaning-use analysis as a way of reconciling the classical project of analytic philosophy with pragmatist critiques of it. Meaning-use diagrams graphically display analytic relations between the meaning and use of a variety of vocabularies. In some important cases, pragmatic metavocabularies can be substantially expressively weaker than the vocabularies whose use they allow one to specify. This is pragmatic expressive bootstrapping. An example is given from computational linguistics. The project of semantic analysis of target vocabularies in terms of base vocabularies is enriched by setting pragmatically mediated semantic relations alongside such purely semantic relations as definition, paraphrase, translation, entailment, reduction, truth-making, and supervenience, on which the analytic tradition has hitherto focused.
Keywords: meaning, use, semantics, analytic philosophy, pragmatism, vocabulary, empiricism, naturalism
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