Thursday, December 19, 2013

Meaning, Expression, Intention

Husserl's primary ambition for his Subjective Logicism is to provide what he believes that its Objective rival cannot--a foundation for the set of Propositions that constitute any scientific theory.  But, with its concept of Intention, derived from Brentano, it also offers a more versatile ground than does it rival for a Semantics of ordinary discourse.  For, it can accommodate a formulation that conforms to the latter--'The Meaning of an utterance consists in its expressing the intention of its speaker'.  On that basis, Russell's segregation of an 'attitude', such as an intention, from a Proposition, empties the would-be symbols that comprise the latter of any Sense or Reference.

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