Confirmation holism and semantic holism

Synthese ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 109 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mack Harrell
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Holism ◽  
Confirmation Holism

Semantic holism

Studia Logica ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nuel D Belnap ◽  
Gerald J. Massey
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Holism

Spinoza on Skepticism

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominik Perler
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Preventive Strategy ◽  
Semantic Holism ◽  
Radical Skepticism ◽  
Basic Assumptions

Spinoza never discusses the scenario of radical skepticism as it was introduced by Descartes. Why not? This chapter argues that he chooses a preventive strategy: instead of taking the skeptical challenge as it is and trying to refute it, he questions the challenge itself and gives a diagnosis of its origin. It is a combination of semantic atomism, dualism, and anti-naturalism that gives rise to radical doubts. Spinoza attacks these basic assumptions, opting instead for semantic holism, anti-dualism, and naturalism. This crucial shift of basic assumptions prevents radical skepticism from arising. To be sure, local doubts are still possible, but the possibility of global doubt is ruled out. The chapter examines this preventive strategy, situating it in the historical context and building a bridge to more recent anti-skeptical strategies.

A Critique of the Case for Semantic Holism

1994 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-60
Author(s):  
Michael Devitt
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Holism

scholarly journals Semantic Holism in Scientific Language*

2010 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
pp. 524-543 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holger Andreas
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Language ◽  
Semantic Holism

Phenomenology as Insider Trading: Some Stipulations for the Religious "Skin Trade"

2007 ◽  
Vol 19 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 255-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Ryba
Keyword(s):  
Insider Trading ◽  
Semantic Holism ◽  
Jerry Fodor ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Linguistic Determinism ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Academic Study

AbstractThis paper examines some of the interpretations of the insider/outsider distinction as it is understood in the study of religion but in light of Jerry Fodor and Ernest Lepore's arguments about semantic holism and atomism. It argues that this application shows that if the outsider/insider distinction is approached as a form of global holism coupled with linguistic determinism, then it is a pseudo-problem and no further energy ought to be wasted on it. Also argued is that radically exclusive insidership or radically inclusive insidership are indefensible positions. Instead, this paper proposes that access to the inside of a worldview is, in principle, no different for a insider than for an outsider; it is a matter of degree and not kind. No variety of religious information is, per se, incommunicable, except that of the individual subject's existential subjecthood. Insidership and outsidership in the academic study of religion indicate positions with respect to agency, thematization, and explanation and should not be defined, primarily, by occupation, material, or methods.

scholarly journals Semantic Holism: An Introduction

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajiba Lochan Behera
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Holism

A Critique of the Case for Semantic Holism

1993 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Devitt
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Holism
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