意义之显示——从达米特方案看

The Manifestation of Meaning:From Dummett’s Method

迈克尔·达米特在其《什么是意义理论》(上下篇)中,为建构意义理论提出了一套方法论原则:任何一门意义理论既要说明如何界定语言的意义又要说明如何显示关于语言意义的知识。我们把这两项方法论要求称作"界定要求"和"显示要求"。本文将从方法论的角度分别考察戴维森的真值条件意义理论,达米特的"证实-结果"意义理论,以及布兰顿推论主义语义学的相关内容,并试图展现出,"显示要求"在这条意义理论的发展脉络中不断增强的理论地位。

In his What is a Theory of Meaning(I &II),Michael Dummett imposes a methodological constraint on establishing a theory of meaning:any theory of meaning needs not only to define the meaning of expressions of a particular language but also to manifest our knowledge of the meaning in question.We respectively call them "definition requirement"and "manifestation requirement".This paper attempts to,from this methodological point of view,examine Davidson’s truth-conditional meaning theory,Dummett’s "verification-circumstance"meaning theory and Brandom’s inferential semantics,showing the fact that the"manifestation requirement"increasingly gains its theoretical import.