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严格性反观之下的意义理论新路径——模态论证的一个描述论逻辑分析
张力锋
A New Approach to the Theory of Meaning upon Reflection of Rigidity: A Logical Analysis of Modal Argument from a Perspective of Descriptivism
Zhang Lifeng

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索引性表达式的语境敏感性造成特征与内容相分离,内容上的直接指称或严格性与作为语言规则的特征意义并不违和,内容层面的直接指称词项完全可以在特征层面拥有丰富的意义,从而为调和描述理论与直接指称理论间的冲突提供了一种可能性。严格化摹状词策略是一条颇有前景的描述论进路,以索引性的现实化摹状词置换名字既可以维持原语句所表达命题之形而上学模态地位,又不改变置换后语句分析性方面的语义属性,维护了其先验可知的认识论特质,并将分析性和必然性概念分别明确地归属于语义学和形而上学两个不同范畴,切断它们外延上的一般性逻辑联系,从而破除“分析衍推必然”的语言哲学神话,较有效地调和了描述论和直接指称理论在语义学、形而上学两个维度的内在冲突,有力地捍卫了作为意义理论的描述论。

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关键词 严格性现实分析性必然性意义理论模态论证索引词    
Abstract

Over the past half century, there has been a debate between the theory of description and the theory of direct reference in the philosophy of language, which began with Saul Kripkes modal argument. However, this debate is deliberately exaggerated, partly due to peoples unfamiliarity with or neglect of the theoretical achievements in demonstratives and indexicals, especially the work of David Kaplan. This article employs the theory of direct reference on indexicals to advance an approach of actualizing description to names, and argues that this approach is promising in rebutting the modal argument and reconciling both parties of the debate. This article holds that actualizing description is the most direct and convenient response that a theorist of description can make to the modal argument. As a context-sensitive indexical expression, an abstract actualized description type has only literal meaning of character; only in a context of use can its particular token obtain a complete content meaning. By returning to the world of context, an actualized description token can locate a unique object as its reference by virtue of its meaning of character and can designate it rigidly, referring to the content meaning of that particular token. Since the rigid designation has been established in the world of context, this article argues that there is no need to identify the referent of the actualized token description in any circumstance or any world of evaluation with the help of descriptive meaning since it directly refers to that object. This article boldly breaks through the strategy of rigidifying description proposed by John Searle, and locates the meaning of actualized description at the level of character, while there is no descriptive meaning but the direct referent itself as meaning at the level of content. Thus, the approach of actualizing description I advance is compatible with the theories of description and direct reference: the reference is determined by virtue of its meaning of character in the context of use, while the object as the referent is referred to directly in the circumstance or world of evaluation, and the referent is precisely restricted to its content meaning. Since an actualized token description has the same rigidity as a name, the modal argument that resorts to the distinction between rigid designator and accidental designator to rebut the new version of the theory of description is no longer valid. This article also focuses on the principle ″analyticity entails necessity″ which the modal argument relies on, and points out that the analyticity of context-sensitive sentence does not entail the necessity of the proposition it may express. I set up a criterion of identity for context-sensitive sentence token: any token belonging to the same sentence type and expressing the same proposition is identical to each other. Furthermore, a new definition is proposed for the analyticity of the indexical sentence, that is, the content (proposition) expressed by any of its tokens is true in the contextual world in which that token may occur, or, all its tokens are necessarily true. Thus, the traditional notion of analyticity is expanded. Based on this, I defend the analyticity of indexical sentences such that ″ιx@(x) is (x)″ in the article, for all its tokens are necessarily true. In the meantime, I emphasize that rigid designator, accidental designator, and direct referential term are all relative to the metaphysical meaning of content and cannot be used as reasons to determine the analyticity or syntheticity of a sentence at the level of linguistic rules. By the same token, this article argues that the analyticity of sentence at the level of linguistic rules does not entail the necessity of proposition expressed at the metaphysical level. The sentence that ″ιx@(x) is (x)″ involving an actualized description is analytic, whereas due to the accidental property that represents a singular proposition expressed by some of its tokens is not necessary or necessarily true. Since no ridiculous corollary follows from the analyticity of the context-sensitive sentence that ″x@(x) is (x)″, the trick of a modal argument to refute the rigidifying description strategy can hardly work. In summary, converting ordinary descriptions that are accidental designators into actualized descriptions that are rigid designators, the approach of actualizing description not only reconciles the theory of description with the theory of direct reference, but also deals with the accusations of analyticity from the modal argument at leisure, for analyticity of a sentence at the level of character does not entail necessity or necessary truth of a proposition it may express at the level of content.

Key wordsrigidity    actuality    analyticity    necessity    theory of meaning    modal argument    indexical   
    
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张力锋. 严格性反观之下的意义理论新路径——模态论证的一个描述论逻辑分析[J]. 浙江大学学报(人文社会科学版), 2020, 6(2): 24-. Zhang Lifeng. A New Approach to the Theory of Meaning upon Reflection of Rigidity: A Logical Analysis of Modal Argument from a Perspective of Descriptivism. JOURNAL OF ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY, 2020, 6(2): 24-.
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