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Analysis 2009 69(4):655-661; doi:10.1093/analys/anp100
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Florian Steinberger

Queens’ College, Cambridge Cambridge CB3 9ET, UK fs268@cam.ac.uk

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   1. Harmony as equilibrium
 
According to Michael Dummett, we may think of the meaning of an expression as given by the principles governing the use we make of it. The principles regulating our linguistic practices can then be grouped into two broad categories (Dummett 1973: 396, 1991: 211). We might state them as follows:

  • I-principles: state the circumstances under which an assertion of a sentence containing the expression in question is warranted.
  • E-principles: state the consequences of asserting a sentence containing the expression.
In the case of the logical constants, we may associate a constant's I-principles with the set of its introduction rules and its E-principles with the set of its elimination rules (Dummett 1973: 454).1

To ensure that these principles confer coherent meanings on the logical expressions of our language, introduction rules and elimination rules cannot be fixed wholly independently of one another. There must be a certain ‘consonance’ between . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   2. Tennant's notion of harmony
 

   3. A counter-example to Tennant's account
 

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