Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2006
Abstract
The paper is devoted to a critical assessment of the Platonist uncerstanding of semantics. Its thesis is that Platonism is a 'good servant, bad master': on the one hand it may be very suitable to isolate a Platonistically construed structure of such an empirical phenomenon as language; on the other hand it is, however, necessary to see that this is a hypostasis, for otherwise it can easily lead us to the misguided conviction that language is nothing but a collection of names of Platonist entities.