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Aristotle on Meaning
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Jean-Louis Hudry
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2. September 2011
Abstract
This paper shows that Aristotle's De Interpretatione does not separate syntax from semantics (contra Boger, Aristotle on Truth, Cambridge, 2004). Linguistic sentences are not syntactic entities, and non-linguistic meanings are not semantic propositions expressed by linguistic sentences. In fact, Aristotle resorts to a mental conception of meaning, distinguishing linguistic meanings in a given language from non-linguistic mental contents in relation to actual things: while the former are not the same for all, the latter are shared by everyone. Aristotle is not a modern logician, like Boole, Frege, or Russell, in so far as a mental conception of meaning does not reveal an abstract semantics for a syntactic language.
Published Online: 2011-09-02
Published in Print: 2011-September
© Walter de Gruyter 2011
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