Skip to main content
Log in

Realism and understanding

  • Published:
Synthese Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

References

  • Davidson, Donald: 1967, ‘Truth and Meaning’,Synthese 17, 304–23.

    Google Scholar 

  • Davidson, Donald: 1974, ‘Belief and the Basis of Meaning’,Synthese 27, 309–23.

    Google Scholar 

  • Dummett, Michael: 1959, ‘Truth’, in Dummett (1978), pp. 1–24. Originally published inProceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary volume, Vol. LIV, pp. 141–162.

  • Dummett, Michael: 1963, ‘Realism’, in Dummett (1978), pp. 145–165.

    Google Scholar 

  • Dummett, Michael: 1973,Frege: Philosophy of Language, Duckworth, London.

    Google Scholar 

  • Dummett, Michael: 1975a, ‘What is a Theory of Meaning?’ in Samuel Guttenplan (ed.),Mind and Language, Clarendon Press, Oxford, pp. 97–138.

    Google Scholar 

  • Dummett, Michael: 1975b, ‘Frege's Distinction between Sense and Reference’, in Dummett (1978), pp. 116–144. Originally published in Spanish as ‘Frege’, inTheorema 5 (1975).

  • Dummett, Michael: 1976a, ‘What is a Theory of Meaning? (II)’, in Gareth Evans and John McDowell (eds.),Truth and Meaning: Essays in Semantics, Clarendon Press, Oxford, pp. 67–137.

    Google Scholar 

  • Dummett, Michael: 1976b, ‘What Does the Appeal to Use Do for the Theory of Meaning?’ in Avishai Margalit (ed.),Meaning and Use, D. Reidel, Dordrecht, Boston and London, 1979, pp. 123–135.

    Google Scholar 

  • Dummett, Michael: 1978,Truth and Other Enigmas, Duckworth, London.

    Google Scholar 

  • Field, Hartry: 1972, ‘Tarski's Theory of Truth’,The Journal of Philosophy 69, 347–75. Reprinted in Mark Platts (ed.),Reference, Truth and Reality, Routledge & Kegan Paul. London, Boston and Henley, pp. 83–110.

    Google Scholar 

  • McDowell, John: 1976, ‘Truth Conditions, Bivalence, and Verificationism’, in Gareth Evans and John McDowell (eds.),Truth and Meaning, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1976, pp. 42–66.

    Google Scholar 

  • McDowell, John: forthcoming, ‘Anti-Realism and the Epistemology of Understanding’, to appear in Herman Parret and Jacques Bouveresse (eds.),Meaning and Understanding. (Proceedings of a Conference on Meaning and Understanding in Cerisy-la-Salle, France, in June 1979.)

  • Platts, Mark: 1980, ‘Introduction’, in Mark Platts (ed.),Reference, Truth and Reality, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, Boston and Henley, pp. 1–18.

    Google Scholar 

  • Quine, Willard Van Orman: 1976, ‘Use and Its Place in Meaning’, in Avishai Margalit (ed.),Meaning and Use, D. Reidel, Dordrecht, Boston and London.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sellars, Wilfrid: 1963, ‘Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind’, in Wilfrid Sellars,Science, Perception and Reality, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, pp. 127–196.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sellars, Wilfrid: 1974, ‘Meaning as Functional Classification’,Synthese 27, 417–437.

    Google Scholar 

  • Stenius, Erik: 1976, ‘Comments on Donald Davidson's Paper “Radical Interpretation”’,Dialectica 30, 35–60.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Sintonen, M. Realism and understanding. Synthese 52, 347–378 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00869561

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00869561

Navigation