Why Polysemy Supports Radical Contextualism

François Recanati (1)

1 IJN - Institut Jean-Nicod

After presenting two forms of Contextualism, I will argue that the phenomenon of polysemy supports the stronger one – so-called Radical Contextualism. My argument will be based on a comparison between indexicality and polysemy.

Domaines: Sciences de l'Homme et Société; Philosophie

François Recanati. Why Polysemy Supports Radical Contextualism. Patrick Brézillon; Roy Turner; Carlo Penco. Modeling and Using Context, Springer, pp.216-222, 2019, ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-34974-5_18⟩. ⟨hal-02932361⟩