The Structure of Truth by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published: 2020-01-30T00:00:00+00:00

I take it to be obvious that the demonstrative theory assigns a structure to sentences containing quotations that can be handled in a straightforward way by a theory of truth—assuming of course that there is a way of accommodating demonstratives at all. On this point, I have already tried to indicate why there is not any real difficulty in making room for demonstrative or indexical elements in a formal theory of truth.15 And I hope it is also obvious that the picturing feature of quotation has been exploited and explained. So the demonstrative theory also authorizes the use of quotation in introducing new bits of typography and discussing languages with new alphabets. I shall conclude by considering how it fares with the mixed cases of use and mention on exhibit earlier.

I said that for the demonstrative theory the quoted material was no part, semantically, of the quoting sentence. But this was stronger than necessary or desirable. The device of pointing can be used on whatever is in range of the pointer, and there is no reason why an inscription in active use can’t be ostended in the process of mentioning an expression. I have already indicated an important sort of case, and there are many more. (“You pay attention to what I’m going to say,” “Why did you use those words?” etc.) Any token may serve as target for the arrows of quotation, so in particular a quoting sentence may after all by chance contain a token with the shape needed for the purposes of quotation. Such tokens then do double duty, once as meaningful cogs in the machine of the sentence, once as semantically neutral objects with a useful form.

Thus:

Quine says that quotation “has a certain anomalous feature”

may be rendered more explicitly:

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