Coordination is the presumption that distinct representations have the same
referential content. Philosophers have discussed ways in which the presence of
coordination might bear on the metasemantic determination of content. One test
case for exploring the relationship between coordination and content is the
phenomenon of conflation — the situation in which representations are about
distinct things but are nevertheless coordinated. In this paper, I use observations
about conflation to develo…
Read moreCoordination is the presumption that distinct representations have the same
referential content. Philosophers have discussed ways in which the presence of
coordination might bear on the metasemantic determination of content. One test
case for exploring the relationship between coordination and content is the
phenomenon of conflation — the situation in which representations are about
distinct things but are nevertheless coordinated. In this paper, I use observations
about conflation to develop an anaphoric metasemantics for some representations
in which coordination plays an integral role. I also develop some novel remarks on
the problem of misrepresentation.
