Fractal Semantics, Dasein and Frege’s Puzzles about Propositional Attitudes

نوع مقاله : مقاله علمی- پژوهشی

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1 دانشگاه تبریز

2 دانشیار گروه فلسفه، دانشگاه تبریز، تبریز، ایران.

چکیده

Why does meaning exhibit both remarkable stability across time and irreducible variability across subjects, contexts, and cultural epochs? Existing theories — whether referentialist or sense-based — cannot fully answer this question because they model meaning as a static, level-independent object. This paper develops structural-fractal semantics, a formal framework that models linguistic meaning as a level-indexed, subject-relative, and time-sensitive hierarchical structure: unbounded in principle, yet always operative at a finite "cut" in practice. The framework distinguishes four components: (i) an anchoring base that stably fixes reference across levels; (ii) essential data that preserve semantic identity; (iii) singular data whose acceptance or rejection drives cognitive significance and conceptual change; and (iv) neutral data that leave semantic identity unchanged. This tripartite data-role structure is grounded in Heidegger's notion of Dasein as Being-in-the-world, which explains why meaning is simultaneously open-ended and practically finite. On this basis, the framework offers systematic, formally precise treatments of five classical problems: the informativeness of identity statements (Frege's puzzle), the opacity of propositional attitude reports, the externalism of natural kind terms, the normativity of rule-following (Kripke–Wittgenstein), and layered conceptual relativism with bounded incommensurability.

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عنوان مقاله [English]

Fractal Semantics, Dasein and Frege’s Puzzles about Propositional Attitudes

نویسندگان [English]

  • soran mahmoud faxe 1
  • Mahmoud Sufiani 2
1 Tabriz university-Iran
2 Associate Professor of Philosophy Department, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran.
چکیده [English]

Why does meaning exhibit both remarkable stability across time and irreducible variability across subjects, contexts, and cultural epochs? Existing theories — whether referentialist or sense-based — cannot fully answer this question because they model meaning as a static, level-independent object. This paper develops structural-fractal semantics, a formal framework that models linguistic meaning as a level-indexed, subject-relative, and time-sensitive hierarchical structure: unbounded in principle, yet always operative at a finite "cut" in practice. The framework distinguishes four components: (i) an anchoring base that stably fixes reference across levels; (ii) essential data that preserve semantic identity; (iii) singular data whose acceptance or rejection drives cognitive significance and conceptual change; and (iv) neutral data that leave semantic identity unchanged. This tripartite data-role structure is grounded in Heidegger's notion of Dasein as Being-in-the-world, which explains why meaning is simultaneously open-ended and practically finite. On this basis, the framework offers systematic, formally precise treatments of five classical problems: the informativeness of identity statements (Frege's puzzle), the opacity of propositional attitude reports, the externalism of natural kind terms, the normativity of rule-following (Kripke–Wittgenstein), and layered conceptual relativism with bounded incommensurability.

کلیدواژه‌ها [English]

  • Fractal Semantics
  • Frege’s Puzzles
  • Propositional Attitudes
  • Dasein
  • Rule-Following
  • Externalism
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