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Critical Notes

Is Semantics Possible? Moretti facing Klimovsky: On “Referencia, estructuras y universalidad expresiva” by Alberto Moretti

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  • Eduardo García-Ramírez
Eduardo García-Ramírez
Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas - Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Filosófico - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Buenos Aires, Argentina / Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36446/af.e980

Published 2024-08-27

Keywords

  • Sintacticismo,
  • Dilema,
  • Trivialidad,
  • Completitud
  • Syntactism,
  • Dilemma,
  • Triviality,
  • Completeness
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Abstract

Klimovsky (1984) and (1982) presents a dilemma against any semantics of natural language while offering an objection against the syntactist view of it. As a reply, Moretti (2011) offers a “minimally” syntactist solution to Klimovsky’s objections. In this paper I have two goals. First, I want to rescue Klimovsky’s general dilemma and his objections against syntactism. Second, I argue that Moretti’s way out of the dilemma does not fully succeed. The paper concludes by arguing that the dilemma is still standing and should concern our best available semantic theories.

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