國立臺灣大學哲學論評

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This paper aims to defend François Recanati’s Availability Principle
approach to semantics by illuminating and responding to two major challenges
from minimalists, in particular from Emma Borg: the first concerns the notion
of intuitive content and “awareness-of” presupposed in the Availability Principle,
and the second concerns whether the principle makes a semantic theory unfit
with normativity and compositionality. I lead the discussion toward the kernel
question--the bearer of the semantic content--and show that the Availability
Principle is appropriate if we respect the empirical basis of meaning.