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Cognitive synonymy : a dead parrot?
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dc.contributor.author | Berto, Franz | |
dc.contributor.author | Hornischer, Levin | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-07-18T11:30:25Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-07-18T11:30:25Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-09-01 | |
dc.identifier | 290268914 | |
dc.identifier | 2a806d8a-78b3-4f86-ba41-bf52b681e316 | |
dc.identifier | 85164963942 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Berto , F & Hornischer , L 2023 , ' Cognitive synonymy : a dead parrot? ' , Philosophical Studies , vol. 180 , pp. 2727-2752 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-023-02007-4 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0031-8116 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0003-3246-657X/work/139156685 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/27982 | |
dc.description | Funding: 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.abstract | Sentences 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. | |
dc.format.extent | 26 | |
dc.format.extent | 1437095 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Philosophical Studies | en |
dc.subject | Aboutness | en |
dc.subject | Subject matter | en |
dc.subject | Hyperintensionality | en |
dc.subject | Synonymy | en |
dc.subject | Defeasible reasoning | en |
dc.subject | Cognitive content | en |
dc.subject | Leitgeb impossibility result | en |
dc.subject | BC Logic | en |
dc.subject | BD Speculative Philosophy | en |
dc.subject | T-NDAS | en |
dc.subject | MCC | en |
dc.subject.lcc | BC | en |
dc.subject.lcc | BD | en |
dc.title | Cognitive synonymy : a dead parrot? | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.sponsor | European Research Council | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Arché Philosophical Research Centre for Logic, Language, Metaphysics and Epistemology | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Philosophy | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-023-02007-4 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 681404 | en |
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