Meanings
adjectiveintersubstitutable (not comparable)
- not comparableCapable of being substituted for each other; interchangeable.
The Context Principle still demands that for two expressions to be synonymous in L, they should be intersubstitutable salva interpretatione in all sentences of L, and not just intersubstitutable in all observation sentences.
2007 November 29, Manfred Kupffer, “An Unintentional Defense of the Indeterminacy of Meaning?”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 2, →DOI
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