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"Doggie" and "bunny"

Richard D. Kortum

pp. 70-71

Abstract

Another of Dummett's varieties of tone is presented by the pair "rabbit" and "bunny". Who would have imagined that anything much could hang on such an innocuous pair of words as this? "Decidability" and "verifiability", sure. "Substance" and "material", yes. "Just" and "fair", "faith" and "trust"? Okay. "Beauty" and "loveliness", perhaps. But "rabbit" and "bunny"? What could possibly be of philosophical interest with the likes of these? I must confess to such puzzlement myself. And yet, no less than a former Wykeham Chair of Logic has introduced these into the heart of the discussion. What's more, at the end of the day an examination of the nature of tonality would simply be incomplete without them. So, let's see where they take us.

Publication details

Published in:

Kortum Richard D. (2013) Varieties of tone: Frege, Dummett and the shades of meaning. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Pages: 70-71

DOI: 10.1057/9781137263544_12

Full citation:

Kortum Richard D. (2013) "Doggie" and "bunny", In: Varieties of tone, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 70–71.