ABSTRACT

Whatever that could possibly mean.… For let us be absolutely clear: according to Kripke’s argument, it’s not just that there are no facts about (say) me to ground meaning, it’s supposedly that there are no meaning-facts, no facts about meaning, at all.8 Thus the term ‘meaning’ in the context of Kripke’s argument need not be thought of as a full-blown theoretical notion but only in a fairly ‘minimal’ sense. That is, simply as what is meant and understood in instances of language use.