Millianism, Relationism, and Attitude Ascriptions

Relational approaches to Frege's puzzle

“…But the contained sentences do not differ in internal relations; they only differ in content when considered as elements of larger sequences (Soames, ). Semantic relationists have tried different ways to turn these external differences into truth‐conditional differences at the level of attributions (see Fine (, Chapter 4), () and Pinillos ()). It is not clear that any plausible compositional semantics is possible…”

“…The term comes from Fine () who describes his view as “Semantic Relationism”. Pinillos (; ) identifies as a Relationist. The term “Formal Relationist” was coined in (Almotahari, ) to characterize the view in (Heck, ; ).…”

Indistinguishable Senses

“…As I understand the landscape, the approaches in(Putnam, 1954),(Fodor, 1990), and(Fiengo and May, 2006) might be called proto-relationist. I would classify(Taschek, 1995(Taschek, , 1998,(Fine, 2009),(Pinillos, 2011(Pinillos, , 2015,(Heck, 2012),(Schroeter, 2012), and(Pryor, 2016) as Relationists proper. For an overview, see(Gray, 2017).2 Though I adopt the term 'coordination' fromFine (2009), I mean to be using in a theory-neutral way (sometimes Fine uses it in this way, and sometimes he uses it as to refer to an aspect of his Relationist apparatus).…”

“…As I understand the landscape, the approaches in ( Putnam , ), ( Fodor , ), and ( Fiengo and May , ) might be called proto‐relationist . I would classify ( Taschek , , ), ( Fine , ), ( Pinillos , , ), ( Heck , ), ( Schroeter , ), and ( Pryor , ) as Relationists proper. For an overview, see ( Gray , ).…”