The Semantic View, If Plausible, Is Syntactic

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Abstract

Halvorson argues that the semantic view of theories leads to absurdities. Glymour shows how to inoculate the semantic view against Halvorson’s criticisms, namely, by making it into a syntactic view of theories. I argue that this modified semantic-syntactic view cannot do the philosophical work that the original “language-free” semantic view was supposed to do.
Original languageEnglish
JournalPhilosophy of Science
Volume80
Issue number3
Pages (from-to)475-478
ISSN0031-8248
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes

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