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(2018) Eva Picardi on language, analysis and history, Dordrecht, Springer.
Taking a lead from Eva Picardi's work and influence, I investigate the significance of Frege's context principle for the philosophy of language (setting aside its role in Frege's argument for mathematical platonism). I argue that there are some interpretive problems with recent meta-semantic interpretations of the principle. Instead, I offer a somewhat weaker alternative: the context principle is a tool to license certain definitions. Moreover, I claim that it merely lays out one of many possible ways of licensing a definition. This means, among other things, that despite Frege's imperative injunctions, the context principle formulates a permission—not a requirement.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-95777-7_8
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Cariani, F. (2018)., A context principle for the twenty-first century, in A. Coliva, P. Leonardi & S. Moruzzi (eds.), Eva Picardi on language, analysis and history, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 183-203.
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