Maps and Meaning

Journal of Philosophical Research 35:123-128 (2010)
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Abstract

It's possible to understand an infinite number of novel maps. I argue that Roberto Casati and Achille Varzi's compositional semantics of maps cannot explain this possibility, because it requires an infinite number of semantic primitives. So the semantics of maps is puzzlingly different from the semantics of language.

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Ben Blumson
National University of Singapore

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