Locke on Fixing Ideas
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21291552 |
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| Authors | David Wörner (0000-0001-6529-1214, Universität Zürich Philosophisches Seminar Zürichbergstrasse 43, 8044 Zürich Switzerland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 103 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 481-500 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-08 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-9101 • E-ISSN: 0943-3988 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/agph-2018-0101 |
| OpenAlex | W3094470022 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 16 |
I argue that Locke’s distinction between ‘determined’ and ‘undetermined’ ideas incorporates an account of semantic indeterminacy: if the complex idea to which a general term is annexed is ‘undetermined’, the term lacks a determinate extension. I propose that a closer look at this account of semantic indeterminacy illuminates various charges of confusion, misuse and abuse of language Locke levels against his philosophical contemporaries
Confusion · Epistemology · Extension (predicate logic) · Indeterminacy (philosophy) · Linguistics · Physics · Psychoanalysis · Semantics (computer science) · Term (time) · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Computer Science · Historical Philosophy and Science · Philosophy · Psychology · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
| Highly cited | No |
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