<span itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InformAction"><span style="display:none" itemprop="about" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Thing/Notification"><meta itemprop="description" content="Notification"/></span><span itemprop="object" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Event"><div style=""><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="8" border="0" summary="" style="width:100%;font-family:Arial,Sans-serif;border:1px Solid #ccc;border-width:1px 2px 2px 1px;background-color:#fff;"><tr><td><meta itemprop="eventStatus" content="http://schema.org/EventScheduled"/><div style="padding:2px"><span itemprop="publisher" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization"><meta itemprop="name" content="Google Calendar"/></span><meta itemprop="eventId/googleCalendar" content="1jo3v5dcbutao660llm6mi0d0o"/><h3 style="padding:0 0 6px 0;margin:0;font-family:Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;color:#222"><span itemprop="name">Jose Zalabardo, &quot;The Meaning of Meaning Ascription&quot;</span></h3><table style="display:inline-table" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" summary="Event details"><tr><td style="padding:0 1em 10px 0;font-family:Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#888;white-space:nowrap" valign="top"><div><i style="font-style:normal">When</i></div></td><td style="padding-bottom:10px;font-family:Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#222" valign="top"><time itemprop="startDate" datetime="20220525T053000Z"></time><time itemprop="endDate" datetime="20220525T070000Z"></time>Wed 25 May 2022 15:30 – 17:00 <span style="color:#888">Eastern Australia Time - Sydney</span></td></tr><tr><td style="padding:0 1em 10px 0;font-family:Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#888;white-space:nowrap" valign="top"><div><i style="font-style:normal">Where</i></div></td><td style="padding-bottom:10px;font-family:Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#222" valign="top"><span itemprop="location" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name" class="notranslate">Philosophy Seminar Room</span><span dir="ltr"> (<a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/jY_XC2xMQzikZNqN3I2p5ac?domain=google.com" style="color:#20c;white-space:nowrap" target="_blank" itemprop="map">map</a>)</span></span></td></tr><tr><td style="padding:0 1em 10px 0;font-family:Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#888;white-space:nowrap" valign="top"><div><i style="font-style:normal">Calendar</i></div></td><td style="padding-bottom:10px;font-family:Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#222" valign="top">Seminars</td></tr><tr><td style="padding:0 1em 10px 0;font-family:Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#888;white-space:nowrap" valign="top"><div><i style="font-style:normal">Who</i></div></td><td style="padding-bottom:10px;font-family:Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#222" valign="top"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td style="padding-right:10px;font-family:Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#222"><span style="font-family:Courier New,monospace">&#x2022;</span></td><td style="padding-right:10px;font-family:Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#222"><div><div style="margin:0 0 0.3em 0"><span class="notranslate">elhulme@gmail.com</span><span style="font-size:11px;color:#888">- creator</span></div></div></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><div style="float:right;font-weight:bold;font-size:13px"> <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/6zAQCYW8Noc3pzRzlu0NZYx?domain=calendar.google.com" style="color:#20c;white-space:nowrap" itemprop="url">more details &raquo;</a><br></div><div style="padding-bottom:15px;font-family:Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#222;white-space:pre-wrap!important;white-space:-moz-pre-wrap!important;white-space:-pre-wrap!important;white-space:-o-pre-wrap!important;white-space:pre;word-wrap:break-word"><span><u></u><u></u><u></u>The Meaning of Meaning Ascriptions: Assertibility Conditions and Meaning Facts<br><br>Description:<u></u><u></u><u></u><p>Presented on campus in the seminar room; simulcast via Zoom: <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/NvnhC3QNPBim9515KIQETTy?domain=google.com" target="_blank">https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/88445107980</a></p><br>Kripke finds in Wittgenstein an argument for the conclusion that there are no meaning facts, and considers the consequences of this outcome for the meaning of meaning-ascribing sentences, such as “Jones means addition by ‘plus’”. One immediate consequence is that their meaning cannot be given by their truth conditions—the states of affairs on whose obtaining their truth value depends. Kripke proposes instead that meaning ascriptions obtain their meaning from (a) their assertibility conditions and (b) the non-representational function that the practice of asserting these sentences in these conditions plays in our lives, accepting that these sentences can’t play the role of representing the world. I present a strategy for avoiding this outcome. Meaning ascriptions obtain their meanings from their assertibility conditions, but they successfully perform the function of representing the world. No other, non-representational function is part of their meaning. The states of affairs they represent can be singled out with definitions by abstraction, using the synonymy conditions generated by their assertibility conditions. When meaning facts are construed in this way, the argument that Kripke finds in Wittgenstein does not establish that they don’t exist.<u></u><u></u><u></u></span><meta itemprop="description" content="The Meaning of Meaning Ascriptions: Assertibility Conditions and Meaning FactsDescription:Presented on campus in the seminar room; simulcast via Zoom: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/88445107980Kripke finds in Wittgenstein an argument for the conclusion that there are no meaning facts, and considers the consequences of this outcome for the meaning of meaning-ascribing sentences, such as “Jones means addition by ‘plus’”. One immediate consequence is that their meaning cannot be given by their truth conditions—the states of affairs on whose obtaining their truth value depends. Kripke proposes instead that meaning ascriptions obtain their meaning from (a) their assertibility conditions and (b) the non-representational function that the practice of asserting these sentences in these conditions plays in our lives, accepting that these sentences can’t play the role of representing the world. I present a strategy for avoiding this outcome. Meaning ascriptions obtain their meanings from their assertibility conditions, but they successfully perform the function of representing the world. No other, non-representational function is part of their meaning. The states of affairs they represent can be singled out with definitions by abstraction, using the synonymy conditions generated by their assertibility conditions. When meaning facts are construed in this way, the argument that Kripke finds in Wittgenstein does not establish that they don’t exist."/></div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="background-color:#f6f6f6;color:#888;border-top:1px Solid #ccc;font-family:Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:11px"><p>Invitation from <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/44-fCZY1NqiM83Z3gsj15v7?domain=calendar.google.com/" target="_blank" style="">Google Calendar</a></p><p>You are receiving this email at the account sydphil@arts.usyd.edu.au because you are subscribed for notifications on calendar Seminars.</p><p>To stop receiving these emails, please log in to <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/44-fCZY1NqiM83Z3gsj15v7?domain=calendar.google.com/">https://calendar.google.com/calendar/</a> and change your notification settings for this calendar.</p><p>Forwarding this invitation could allow any recipient to send a response to the organiser and be added to the guest list, invite others regardless of their own invitation status or to modify your RSVP. <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/O4H1C1WLPxcpB7y7GIpnDAB?domain=support.google.com">Learn more</a>.</p></td></tr></table></div></span></span>