Tradition
Two-dimensionalism
Overview
Two-dimensionalism is an approach to semantics in analytic philosophy. It is a theory of how to determine the sense and reference of a word and the truth-value of a sentence. It is intended to resolve the puzzle: How is it possible to discover empirically that a necessary truth is true? Two-dimensionalism provides an analysis of the semantics of words and sentences that makes sense of this possibility. The theory was first developed by Robert Stalnaker, but it has been advocated by numerous philosophers since, including David Chalmers.
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The above theory may be thought very odd, but it is partly designed to meet the fourth of our previous questions, namely, “How can we get outside words to the facts which make them true or false?” Obviously we cannot do this within logic, which is imprisoned in the realm of words; we can only do it by considering the relations of words to our other experiences, and these relations, in so far as they are…
Bertrand Russell, Philosophy
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Hence either there can be only one thing in the universe, or, if there are many things, they cannot possibly interact in any way, since any interaction would be a relation, and relations are impossible. The first of these views, advocated by Spinoza and held in our own day by Bradley and many other philosophers, is called _monism_; the second, advocated by Leibniz but not very common nowadays, is called _monadism_…
Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy
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That these methods, however indispensable and brilliantly successful in their own province, are unserviceable for philosophical cognition, is self-evident. They have pre-suppositions; and their style of cognition is that of understanding, proceeding under the canon of formal identity.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Logic of Hegel
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Philosophers who discussed Two-dimensionalism
Related ideas
- Word
- David Kaplan (philosopher)
- Analytic philosophy
- Truth value
- Contingency (philosophy)
- Neutral monism
- Sense and reference
- David Chalmers
- Semantics
- Truth
- Empirical evidence
- Modal logic
- Logical truth
- Robert Stalnaker
- Meaning (philosophy)
- Bertrand Russell
- Saul Kripke
- Gottlob Frege
- Consciousness
- Possible world
- Philosophical zombie
- Proposition
- Epistemology
- Scott Soames
Place in the tradition
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