¿Por qué una palabra significa lo que significa? Comentarios a Escepticismo del significado y teorías de conceptos de Sílvio Mota Pinto

Abstract

In this brief commentary, I argue that Mota Pinto’s theory of interpretation (2009) predicts meanings where there are none. I also criticize his presentation of the communal perspective on meaning, drawing a distinction between two different kinds of semantic facts: a word meaning what it does rather than meaning something else, and such word meaning what it does rather than not meaning anything at all.