Evading the Slingshot

In J. Ezquerro A. Clark (ed.), Philosophy and Cognitive Science: Categories, Consciousness, and Reasoning. Kluwer Academic Publishers (1996)
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The topic of this essay is “the slingshot,” a short argument that purports to show that sentences1 designate (stand for, refer to) truth values. Versions of this argument have been used by Frege 2, Church 3, Quine4 and Davidson5; thus it is historically important, even if it immediately strikes one as fishy. The argument turns on two principles, which I call substitution and redistribution. In “Semantic Innocence and Uncompromising Situations,”6 Jon Barwise and I rejected both principles, as part of our attempt..

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Truth values.Yaroslav Shramko - 2010 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Frege and Russell: Does Science Talk Sense?Mark Wilson - 2007 - European Journal of Analytic Philosophy 3 (2):179-190.

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The logical form of action sentences.Donald Davidson - 1966 - In Nicholas Rescher (ed.), The Logic of Decision and Action. University of Pittsburgh Press. pp. 81--95.
The Situation in Logic.Jon Barwise - 1988 - Cambridge, England: Center for the Study of Language and Inf.
Russell's Mathematical Logic.Kurt Gödel - 1944 - In The Philosophy of Bertrand Russell. Northwestern University Press. pp. 123-154.
Three Grades of Modal Involvement.W. V. Quine - 1953 - Proceedings of the XIth International Congress of Philosophy 14:65-81.
The Situation in Logic.Jon Barwise - 1991 - Studia Logica 50 (1):163-163.

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