Original scientific paper
Structured Propositions, Unity, and the Sense-Nonsense Distinction
Octavian Ion
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APA 6th Edition
Ion, O. (2018). Structured Propositions, Unity, and the Sense-Nonsense Distinction. Croatian Journal of Philosophy, 18 (53), 319-334. Retrieved from https://hrcak.srce.hr/253556
MLA 8th Edition
Ion, Octavian. "Structured Propositions, Unity, and the Sense-Nonsense Distinction." Croatian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 18, no. 53, 2018, pp. 319-334. https://hrcak.srce.hr/253556. Accessed 2 Nov. 2024.
Chicago 17th Edition
Ion, Octavian. "Structured Propositions, Unity, and the Sense-Nonsense Distinction." Croatian Journal of Philosophy 18, no. 53 (2018): 319-334. https://hrcak.srce.hr/253556
Harvard
Ion, O. (2018). 'Structured Propositions, Unity, and the Sense-Nonsense Distinction', Croatian Journal of Philosophy, 18(53), pp. 319-334. Available at: https://hrcak.srce.hr/253556 (Accessed 02 November 2024)
Vancouver
Ion O. Structured Propositions, Unity, and the Sense-Nonsense Distinction. Croatian Journal of Philosophy [Internet]. 2018 [cited 2024 November 02];18(53):319-334. Available from: https://hrcak.srce.hr/253556
IEEE
O. Ion, "Structured Propositions, Unity, and the Sense-Nonsense Distinction", Croatian Journal of Philosophy, vol.18, no. 53, pp. 319-334, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://hrcak.srce.hr/253556. [Accessed: 02 November 2024]
Abstract
Back in the Good Old Days of Logical Positivism, theories of meaning were part of a normative project that sought not merely to describe the features of language and its use, but so to speak to separate the wheat from the chaff. In this paper, I side with Herman Cappelen (2013) in thinking that we need to rethink and reintroduce the important distinction between sense and nonsense that was ditched along with other normative aspirations during Logical Positivism’s spectacular demise. Despite this, my delineation of the bounds of sense is different from Cappelen’s. One of my goals in the present paper is to argue that category mistakes are paradigmatic examples of nonsensical sentences. To this end I describe one candidate for what it might be that makes category mistakes nonsensical.
Keywords
Content; category mistake; nonsense; proposition; unity; state of affairs.
Hrčak ID:
253556
URI
https://hrcak.srce.hr/253556
Publication date:
5.9.2018.
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