title: “If Josef kills Leon, is Leon dead?”
creator: Horsey, Richard
subject: Semantics
subject: Philosophy of Mind
subject: Logic
subject: Pragmatics
description: Fodor (1975) proposed that word meanings were atomic, and that meaning relations between words could be captured by inference rules, or 'meaning postulates', linking atomic concepts. In his recent work, however, Fodor has rejected meaning postulates as a way of capturing meaning relations, because he sees no principled way of distinguishing meaning postulates from empirical knowledge. In this paper, I argue that Fodor is wrong to reject meaning postulates.
date: 2001
type: Conference Paper
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://cogprints.org/3258/1/josef.pdf
identifier:   Horsey, Richard  (2001) “If Josef kills Leon, is Leon dead?”.  [Conference Paper]    (Unpublished)  
relation: http://cogprints.org/3258/