Linguistic Conventionalism and the Truth-Contrast Thesis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3154262 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fredrik Nyseth (0000-0003-0077-0286, Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 264-285 |
| Publication date | 2021-03-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Philosophical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8094 • E-ISSN: 1467-9213 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/pq/pqaa036 |
| OpenAlex | W3027688842 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 33 |
According to linguistic conventionalism, necessities are to be explained in terms of the conventionally adopted rules that govern the use of linguistic expressions. A number of influential arguments against this view concerns the 'Truth-Contrast Thesis'. This is the claim that necessary truths are fundamentally different from contingent ones since they are not made true by 'the (worldly) facts'. Instead, they are supposed to be something like 'true in virtue of meaning'. This thesis is widely held to be a core commitment of the conventionalist position, and the view is frequently rejected on the grounds that this thesis is untenable. I argue that this line of reasoning is mistaken. While the thesis should be rejected (although not for the reasons often given), it is not, I argue, entailed by linguistic conventionalism - nor was it invariably accepted by the paradigmatic conventionalists
Contrast (vision · Conventionalism · Epistemology · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Virtue · Computer Science · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
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Carnap's conventionalism
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Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics
The Conventional and the Analytic
The Philosophy of Michael Dummett
Methodology of the Social Sciences
Introduction to Logical Theory
Methodology of the Social Sciences
The Possibility of Truth by Convention
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |