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- Title
Observation Sentences Revisited.
- Authors
Kemp, Gary
- Abstract
I argue for an alternative to Quine's conception of observation sentences, one that better satisfies the roles Quine envisages for them, and that otherwise respects Quinean constraints. After reviewing a certain predicament Quine got into in balancing the needs of the intersubjectivity of observation sentences with his notion of the stimulus meaning of an observation sentence, I push for replacing the latter with what I call the 'stimulus field' of an observation sentence, a notion that remains 'proximate' but is shared between different language users. Throughout, I emphasize the epistemological role of observation sentences.
- Subjects
SENTENCES (Logic); OBSERVATION (Educational method); TEACHER training; BELIEF sentences (Logic); LOGIC
- Publication
Mind, 2022, Vol 131, Issue 523, p805
- ISSN
0026-4423
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/mind/fzaa103