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TRUTH AND METATHEORY IN FREGE
Author(s) -
Stanley Jason
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
pacific philosophical quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.914
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1468-0114
pISSN - 0279-0750
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0114.1996.tb00158.x
Subject(s) - metatheory , epistemology , sort , principle of compositionality , philosophy , skepticism , predicate (mathematical logic) , interpretation (philosophy) , coherence theory of truth , computer science , pragmatic theory of truth , linguistics , information retrieval , programming language
In this paper it is contended, against a challenging recent interpretation of Frege, that Frege should be credited with the first semi‐rigorous formulation of semantic theory. It is argued that the considerations advanced against this contention suffer from two kinds of error. The first involves the attribution to Frege of a sceptical attitude towards the truth‐predicate. The second involves the sort of justification which these arguments assume a classical semantic theory attempts to provide. Finally, it is shown that Frege was in fact mindful of the need for the relevant sort of justification.