Huw Price | Keeping the lid on semantics

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This section discusses how, as the matching game metaphor illustrates, philosophical inquiry often begins by focusing on language and attempts to address metaphysical questions by considering what makes statements true. It notes that there are two ways to approach such inquiries: a weak way and a strong way. In the weak sense, semantic terms are understood in a deflationary manner, focusing on language use itself. The strong or substantial sense, however, involves assumptions about semantic properties and relations being grounded in substantial reality. This latter sense is associated with a metaphysical viewpoint that rests on language being a mirror of the world, reflecting properties and relations in reality. The primary aim of Section 1.7 is to argue that keeping a lid on semantics is necessary to prevent representationism from raising the kind of substantial, non-deflationary semantics it relies upon