Open Texture and Semantics

Among the questions we broach in this special issue are the extent to which open texture is a phenomenon of natural languages, how the notion is best described, and to what extent semantics (and logic) can and should accommodate it. This special issue also includes articles that draw on Waismann’s related papers on analyticity, meaning and conceptual change in science, such as “Verifiability” (1945), “Are There Alternative Logics” (1945-1946) “Language Strata” (1946/1953), “The Decline and Fall of Causality” (1959) or his series “Analytic - Synthetic” (1949-1953).