Keelefilosoofia raamat
"Ophthalmologist" and "eye doctor"
are synonymous (or so we may suppose for convenience). But, if Sheila does
not know that, "Sheila believes that every eye doctor doctors eyes" may be
true while "Sheila believes that every ophthalmologist doctors eyes" is false;
likewise "Irving went to an ophthalmologist because an ophthalmologist is
an eye doctor" is true while "Irving went to an ophthalmologist because an
eye doctor is an eye doctor" is false.
132 Theories of meaning
Objection 8
Some Davidsonians (for example, Lycan 1984) and some intension theorists
think of the kind of semantically charged syntax I have been describing as a
machine program for computing large meanings from smaller ones, a program
that is in some sense being run in the brains of speakers and hearers. But that
idea is problematic. Here is a more specific worry about the "dynamic fea-
ture," pointed out by Michael Dummett (1975) and by Hilary Putnam (1978).
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