An inferentialist approach to Mates’s Puzzle
摘要
This paper shows how an inferentialist notion of content can be developed in such a way that it allows for an analogue of Frege’s hierarchy of senses as a response to Mates’s Puzzle. I argue that any plausible inferentialist conception of the objects of belief that wants to take Mates’s Puzzle at face value must allow for failures of the Cut rule. This follows from two premises, namely: (A) To take Mates’s Puzzle at face value, one must acknowledge that there can be sentences of the form “