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dc.contributor.authorBerto, Franz
dc.contributor.authorHornischer, Levin
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-18T11:30:25Z
dc.date.available2023-07-18T11:30:25Z
dc.date.issued2023-09-01
dc.identifier290268914
dc.identifier2a806d8a-78b3-4f86-ba41-bf52b681e316
dc.identifier85164963942
dc.identifier.citationBerto , F & Hornischer , L 2023 , ' Cognitive synonymy : a dead parrot? ' , Philosophical Studies , vol. 180 , pp. 2727-2752 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-023-02007-4en
dc.identifier.issn0031-8116
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0003-3246-657X/work/139156685
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/27982
dc.descriptionFunding: This research is published within the project ‘The Logic of Conceivability’, funded by the European Research Council (ERC CoG), Grant Number 681404.en
dc.description.abstractSentences φ and ψ are cognitive synonyms for one when they play the same role in one’s cognitive life. The notion is pervasive (Sect. 1), but elusive: it is bound to be hyperintensional (Sect. 2), but excessive fine-graining would trivialize it and there are reasons for some coarse-graining (Sect. 2.1). Conceptual limitations stand in the way of a natural algebra (Sect. 2.2), and it should be sensitive to subject matters (Sect. 2.3). A cognitively adequate individuation of content may be intransitive (Sect. 3) due to ‘dead parrot’ series: sequences of sentences φ1,…,φn where adjacent φi and φi+1 are cognitive synonyms while φ1 and φn are not (Sect. 3.1). Finding an intransitive account is hard: Fregean equipollence won’t do (Sect. 3.2) and a result by Leitgeb shows that it wouldn’t satisfy a minimal compositionality principle (Sect. 3.3). Sed contra, there are reasons for transitivity, too (Sect. 3.4). In Sect. 4, we come up with a formal semantics capturing this jumble of desiderata, thereby showing that the notion is coherent. In Sect. 5, we re-assess the desiderata in its light.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofPhilosophical Studiesen
dc.subjectAboutnessen
dc.subjectSubject matteren
dc.subjectHyperintensionalityen
dc.subjectSynonymyen
dc.subjectDefeasible reasoningen
dc.subjectCognitive contenten
dc.subjectLeitgeb impossibility resulten
dc.subjectBC Logicen
dc.subjectBD Speculative Philosophyen
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subjectMCCen
dc.subject.lccBCen
dc.subject.lccBDen
dc.titleCognitive synonymy : a dead parrot?en
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.sponsorEuropean Research Councilen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Arché Philosophical Research Centre for Logic, Language, Metaphysics and Epistemologyen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Philosophyen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-023-02007-4
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.identifier.grantnumber681404en


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