是否存在 "不充分说明"(felicitous underpecification)这一说法?

IF 1.1 1区 哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY
Jeff Speaks
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杰弗里-金(Jeffrey King)在《"不明确的恰当性"》(Felicitous Underspecification)一书中,提请我们注意一个丰富而又未被充分探索的语言学数据集。这些都是对语境敏感的表达式的用法,尽管根据可信的假设,使用这些表达式的语境并不能确保它们具有独特的语义价值,但这些表达式的用法似乎非常恰当。这就立刻引出了一个难题:如果正如金所言,这些表达式的使用在语境中确实缺乏独特的语义价值,那么它们又是如何--正如它们显然所做的那样--为它们出现的对话做出贡献的呢?金用一种新颖的会话更新理论回答了这个问题。在这里,我的重点不是这个理论,而是金的例子,并考虑了一些在不假设语义欠规范的情况下容纳这些例子的方法。在某些情况下,我给出了一些理由来说明另一种解释更优越。但我的目的与其说是要确立这一结论,不如说是要为思考这些例子提出一些新的选择,并希望通过这样做来推进有关金提请我们注意的数据的对话。
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Is there such a thing as felicitous underspecification?

In Felicitous Underspecification, Jeffrey King draws our attention to a rich and underexplored collection of linguistic data. These are uses of context-sensitive expressions which seem perfectly felicitous despite being such that, on plausible assumptions, the context in which they are used falls short of securing for them a unique semantic value. This raises an immediate puzzle: if, as King argues, these uses of expressions really do lack unique semantic values in context, how can they—as they manifestly do—make contributions to the conversations in which they occur? King answers this question with a novel theory of conversational updating. Here I focus less on this theory than on King’s examples, and consider some ways of accommodating them without positing felicitous underspecification. In some cases I give some reasons for thinking that the alternative explanation is superior. But my aim is less to establish this conclusion than to suggest some new options for thinking about these examples, and hopefully by so doing to advance the conversation about the data to which King has drawn our attention.

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期刊介绍: Philosophical Studies was founded in 1950 by Herbert Feigl and Wilfrid Sellars to provide a periodical dedicated to work in analytic philosophy. The journal remains devoted to the publication of papers in exclusively analytic philosophy. Papers applying formal techniques to philosophical problems are welcome. The principal aim is to publish articles that are models of clarity and precision in dealing with significant philosophical issues. It is intended that readers of the journal will be kept abreast of the central issues and problems of contemporary analytic philosophy. Double-blind review procedure The journal follows a double-blind reviewing procedure. Authors are therefore requested to place their name and affiliation on a separate page. Self-identifying citations and references in the article text should either be avoided or left blank when manuscripts are first submitted. Authors are responsible for reinserting self-identifying citations and references when manuscripts are prepared for final submission.
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