Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication
Volume 5 MEANING, UNDERSTANDING AND KNOWLEDGE Article 6
2009
Inferential Role and the Ideal of Deductive Logic
Thomas Hofweber University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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The Baltic International Yearbook of from issues in the philosophy of logic and theory of truth is that this Cognition, Logic and Communication picture of language understanding is mistaken. These philosophers aim to make sense of the idea that the paradoxes show that our language it- October 2010 Volume 5: Meaning, Understanding and Knowledge self is inconsistent. One way this idea is spelled out is that the semantic pages 1-26 DOI: 10.4148/biyclc.v5i0.283 facts that are constitutive of the meaning of certain words are inconsis- tent with each other. Language understanding thus can not be based on knowledge of semantic facts, and not even on true belief about se- THOMAS HOFWEBER mantic facts. The semantic ‘facts’ we take to obtain about our language University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill don’t obtain, and so they can’t be known or truly believed. Another at-