ABSTRACT

In Chapter 5 we considered the first level in Brandom’s three-tiered ISA inferentialist semantic structure, that of inference. In this chapter, this inferentialist semantics will be extended to incorporate the other two subsentential tiers, substitution and anaphora. The reason for extending an inferentialist semantics in this manner stems, in part, from the need to respond to two challenges facing the account developed thus far. We shall call these: the challenge of token repeatability and the challenge of subsentential structure.