caa a22 4500 465779212 CHVBK 20180323111950.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170327e19900301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00401554 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00401554 Semantic holism [Elektronische Daten] [Nuel Belnap Jr., Gerald Massey] A bivalent valuation is snt iff sound (standard PC inference rules take truths only into truths) and non-trivial (not all wffs are assigned the same truth value). Such a valuation is normal iff classically correct for each connective. Carnap knew that there were non-normal snt valuations of PC, and that the gap they revealed between syntax and semantics could be "jumped” as follows. Let VAL snt be the set of snt valuations, and VAL nrm be the set of normal ones. The bottom row in the table for the wedge ‘∨' is not semantically determined by VAL snt, but if one deletes from VAL snt all those valuations that are not classically correct at the aforementioned row, one jumps straights to VAL nrm and thus to classical semantics. The conjecture we call semantic holism claims that the same thing happens for any semantic indeterminacy in any row in the table of any connective of PC, i.e., to remove it is to jump straight to classical semantics. We show (i) why semantic holism is plausible and (ii) why it is nevertheless false. And (iii) we pose a series of questions concerning the number of possible steps or jumps between the indeterminate semantics given by VAL snt and classical semantics given by VAL nrm. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990 Belnap Jr. Nuel Department of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, USA aut Massey Gerald Department of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, USA aut Studia Logica Kluwer Academic Publishers 49/1(1990-03-01), 67-82 0039-3215 49:1<67 1990 49 11225 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00401554 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00401554 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Belnap Jr Nuel Department of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Massey Gerald Department of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Studia Logica Kluwer Academic Publishers 49/1(1990-03-01), 67-82 0039-3215 49:1<67 1990 49 11225 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer