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content holism


Subject Philosophy

DOI: 10.1111/b.9781405106795.2004.x


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P hilosophy of language A type of semantic holism , which claims that an expression can have a content only as a part of a whole language. It cannot have a content unless many other expressions have contents. If I believe a proposition P, then I would have to believe various propositions that are in the context of P. Content holism contrasts with linguistic atomism , which believes that an expression can have a meaning by itself through its relation to an extra-linguistic entity. “What we will call content holism is the claim that properties like having content are holistic in the sense that no expression in a language can have them unless many other (nonsynonymous) expressions in that language have them too.” Fodor and Lepore, Holism ... log in or subscribe to read full text

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