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Record W2326959952 · doi:10.5840/symposium20037213

Davidson and Derrida on Intentions

2003· article· en· W2326959952 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Timothy J. Nulty

Bibliographic record

VenueSymposium · 2003
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicPhilosophy and Theoretical Science
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPsychology

Abstract

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Donald Davidson's approach to meaning can be understood as a synthesis of the divergent positions of Grice and Derrida. I argue, following Davidson, that intentions should be afforded a central role in determining meanings, but that this centrality does not mean that intentions absolutely fix the meaning of a language act. Davidson borrows heavily from Grice, who, I contend, is committed to some version of logoi or self-interpreting units of meaning unmediated by a system of signifiers. Derrida, taking the contrasting view, argues against any notion oflogoi. Derrida argues further that truth, as philosophers have typically thought of it, depends on the existence of self-interpreting signs. Derrida' s rejection of logocentrism seems to entail a rejection of truth as traditionally conceived by philosophers. Davidson, on the other hand, makes truth central in his account of meaning by providing an account of truth that does not depend on the existence of logoi. My central claim is that Davidson, although relying on a Gricean view of speaker intentions and affording truth a central role, does not violate any of Derrida' s primary theses about truth and the nature of meaning.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.937
Threshold uncertainty score0.667

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.021
GPT teacher head0.297
Teacher spread0.276 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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