By Charles Travis
Thought's Footing is an enquiry into the connection among the methods issues are and how we expect and discuss them. it's also a learn of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: Charles Travis develops his account of yes key issues right into a unified view of the paintings as a complete. The significant query is: how does proposal get its footing? How can the idea that issues are a undeniable approach be attached to objects being that means?
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So if one knew the satisfaction condition, or what it states, one would know all there is to know as to when what is said of items, in using ‘sont chaussures’ to mean what it does in French—so in using it to say of those items what it does—would be true. And, if there is such a thing to know, mature French speakers do know it in knowing (what they know in knowing) that ‘chaussures’ 26 Mastery names shoes. ) So for Dummett and for Davidson, Ghislaine will make a qualitative leap in moving from her Augustinian state to a mature one.
He provides a few samples of things to be done in using words. But the examples break off; the diversity extends. , that in ‘My car is blue’, ‘my car’ named my car, and ‘is blue’ named being coloured blue. , that they were an order, or a description, or report. There remains that indefinitely vast variety. Nor is there any such other, more detailed, qualification that would make what my words name narrow down the games in which they could figure—so the conditions on correctness that might govern them—to just one.
The idea crystallizes in his suggestion that a concept be identified with a function from objects to truth-values (Frege 1891). (A concept is his candidate for what an open sentence names. ) The defining feature of a function is that for each argument it takes on precisely one value. ) So if what ‘is blue’ names (the concept blue, being (coloured) blue) maps objects to truth-values, then there is no room for the idea that while speaking of that (as the way my car, or, again, Lake Michigan, is) one might say any of various things, some true, some false.