Acerca del monoproposicionalismo imperante en Semántica y Pragmática

  1. Korta Carrión, Kepa
Revue:
Revista de filosofía

ISSN: 0034-8244 1988-284X

Année de publication: 2007

Número: 32

Pages: 37-55

Type: Article

D'autres publications dans: Revista de filosofía

Résumé

This paper tries to show that the assumption here called monopropositionalism is taken for granted by most semantic and pragmatic theories of natural language, and that it has decisively conditioned many of the debates in recent philosophy of language. Monopropositionalism claims that, leaving aside implicatures, the utterance of a sentence expresses a unique proposition, which is taken as what is said by the utterance, its content or its truth-conditions. But different and, often, incompatible roles are required from that proposition. We will argue for the convenience of rejecting that assumption and the adoption of a pluripropositionalist theory of utterances, based on Korta and Perry�s (forthcoming) Critical Pragmatics.