Antirealism/realism of Hintikka’s game-theoretical semantics
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https://doi.org/10.15291/radovifpsp.2405Abstract
Hintikka’s game-theoretical semantics (GTS) is presented as an anti-Tarskian semantical approach to the context-dependent fragments of Englisch, which overcomes the usual notion of semantical realism. Analysing Hintikka’s critique of Tarski’s interpretation of the truth-conditional theory of meaning, its recursive fashion and the narrow notion of realism, Hintikka’s basic conception is presented in the following manner:
1. the Context-Principle vs. the Frege Principle,
2.First-order logic together with higher-order logic vs. the primacy of first-order logic,
3.verificationist/falsificationist theory vs. Taraski’s narrow truth- conditional theory.
Comparing some reviews of Hintikka’s GTS (M. Dummett, E. Itkonen, E. Saarinen, M. Hand) with a short examination of the antirealistic/realistic controversis by C. Wright and M. Dummett, the following was reached:
Hintikka’s GTS introduces a new, more extended notion of realism, which embraces Taraski-type realistic semantics, Hintikka’s GTS and with this the question of the possibility to also include Dummett’s neoverificationism or other orientations, remains open.
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