Year: 1997
Type: article
Abstract: Call a sentential context semantically transparent if and only if all synonymous expres- sions are substitutable for one another in it salva veritate. Nathan Salmon has boldly ad- vanced a refreshingly crisp semantic theory according to which belief contexts are se- mantically transparent. If he is right, belief contexts are much better behaved than widely suspected. Impressive as it is, this author does not believe that Salmon's theory is completely satisfactory. This article tries to show that Salmon's theory, in conjunction with a number of auxiliary but important claims he makes to buttress the theory, seems to lead to failure of semantic transparency of belief contexts.
DOI: 10.2307/2953722
Author: Takashi Yagisawa
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4230116178