--- abstract: "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." altloc: - http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/richardh/josef.pdf chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: 2001 conference: Spring Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Horsey given: Richard honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 2001 date_type: published datestamp: 2003-10-29 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/32/58 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 3258 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/3258/1/josef.pdf full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: unpub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: meaning postulates lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:55:23 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: ~ pubdom: FALSE publication: ~ publisher: ~ refereed: FALSE referencetext: |- Chomsky, N. 1988. Language and Problems of Knowledge. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. Fodor, J. A. 1975. The Language of Thought. New York: Crowell. Fodor, J. A. 1994. The Elm and the Expert: Mentalese and its Semantics. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. Fodor, J. A. 1998. Concepts: Where Cognitive Science Went Wrong. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Fodor, J. D., Fodor, J. A. & Garrett, M. F. (1975). The psychological unreality of semantic representations. Linguistic Inquiry, 4: 515–531. Sperber, D. & D. Wilson 1995. Relevance, 2nd edition. Oxford: Blackwell. relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 12 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:49:35 subjects: - ling-sem - phil-mind - phil-logic - ling-prag succeeds: ~ suggestions: |- Editor The paper was presented to this conference--there were no proceedings of this conference. Even though I have indicated "unpublished", the software is adding "proceedings" before the name of the conference. Please amend. sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: '“If Josef kills Leon, is Leon dead?”' type: confpaper userid: 1857 volume: ~