But in this case we cannot go around blithely talking about the integers for there is no language we could use to speak of them, or any other infinite set. We would be forbidden of saying that there is something we cannot talk about, and this is not surprising—what is it you can’t refer to?
I believe that this claim is based on a defective notion of what it takes to refer to something successfully. The issue that we’re talking about here is a manifestation of that defect. I’m trying to work out a different conception of reference, but it’s very much a work in progress.
I believe that this claim is based on a defective notion of what it takes to refer to something successfully. The issue that we’re talking about here is a manifestation of that defect. I’m trying to work out a different conception of reference, but it’s very much a work in progress.