Dichotomy or Continuum: Grice's Distinction between Natural and Nonnatural Meaning
Grice (1957), in his theory of meaning, introduced a distinction between two different types of meaning: nonnatural meaning and natural meaning. Grice’s distinction has been put to use in other areas of philosophy as well. Most famously, Dretske (1981, 1986) used Grice’s distinction in his naturaliz...
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| description | Grice (1957), in his theory of meaning, introduced a distinction between two different types of meaning: nonnatural meaning and natural meaning. Grice’s distinction has been put to use in other areas of philosophy as well. Most famously, Dretske (1981, 1986) used Grice’s distinction in his naturalized epistemology. Scarantino and Piccinini (2010) offered a probabilistic alternative for semantic theories of information based on Grice's distinction. In both Dretske’s and Scarantino and Piccinini’s works, Grice’s distinction is assumed to form a dichotomy. This dichotomous nature, I claim, is at the root of some of the problems that afflict Dretske’s information-based naturalized epistemology and Scarantino and Piccinini’s probabilistic approach to information. In this paper, I suggest a revised version of Grice's distinction. In this revised version, instead of a dichotomy, natural and nonnatural meaning categories form a continuity, allowing overlapping and mixed intermediary categories between natural and nonnatural meaning. This continuous version, I further claim, provides more resources for avoiding some of the problems that afflict Dretske’s naturalized epistemology and Scarantino and Piccinini’s probabilistic approach to information. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-0b5ed0b185754478bc5be3e1636529752025-02-02T13:20:46ZengTürk Felsefe DerneğiFelsefe Dünyası1301-08752024-12-018041910.58634/felsefedunyasi.15558652040Dichotomy or Continuum: Grice's Distinction between Natural and Nonnatural MeaningMehmet Hilmi Demir0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7351-6206ANKARA SOSYAL BİLİMLER ÜNİVERSİTESİGrice (1957), in his theory of meaning, introduced a distinction between two different types of meaning: nonnatural meaning and natural meaning. Grice’s distinction has been put to use in other areas of philosophy as well. Most famously, Dretske (1981, 1986) used Grice’s distinction in his naturalized epistemology. Scarantino and Piccinini (2010) offered a probabilistic alternative for semantic theories of information based on Grice's distinction. In both Dretske’s and Scarantino and Piccinini’s works, Grice’s distinction is assumed to form a dichotomy. This dichotomous nature, I claim, is at the root of some of the problems that afflict Dretske’s information-based naturalized epistemology and Scarantino and Piccinini’s probabilistic approach to information. In this paper, I suggest a revised version of Grice's distinction. In this revised version, instead of a dichotomy, natural and nonnatural meaning categories form a continuity, allowing overlapping and mixed intermediary categories between natural and nonnatural meaning. This continuous version, I further claim, provides more resources for avoiding some of the problems that afflict Dretske’s naturalized epistemology and Scarantino and Piccinini’s probabilistic approach to information.https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/4239963naturalized epistemologyinformationnon-natural meaningprobabilityfactivity principledoğallaştırılmış epistemolojienformasyondoğal olmayan anlamolasılıkolgusallık ilkesi |
| spellingShingle | Mehmet Hilmi Demir Dichotomy or Continuum: Grice's Distinction between Natural and Nonnatural Meaning Felsefe Dünyası naturalized epistemology information non-natural meaning probability factivity principle doğallaştırılmış epistemoloji enformasyon doğal olmayan anlam olasılık olgusallık ilkesi |
| title | Dichotomy or Continuum: Grice's Distinction between Natural and Nonnatural Meaning |
| title_full | Dichotomy or Continuum: Grice's Distinction between Natural and Nonnatural Meaning |
| title_fullStr | Dichotomy or Continuum: Grice's Distinction between Natural and Nonnatural Meaning |
| title_full_unstemmed | Dichotomy or Continuum: Grice's Distinction between Natural and Nonnatural Meaning |
| title_short | Dichotomy or Continuum: Grice's Distinction between Natural and Nonnatural Meaning |
| title_sort | dichotomy or continuum grice s distinction between natural and nonnatural meaning |
| topic | naturalized epistemology information non-natural meaning probability factivity principle doğallaştırılmış epistemoloji enformasyon doğal olmayan anlam olasılık olgusallık ilkesi |
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