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Jerry Fodor and Ernest Lepore have argued that semantic holism is incompatible with the in-principle possibility of languages that consist of a single meaningful expression. Should the traditional Quinean/Davidsonian holist be worried by this apparently weird possibility? In this paper, I offer some reasons for why he should be. My argument focuses upon Davidson’s account of how a hypothetical interpreter...
The publication of Davidson 2001, anthologizing articles from the 1980s and 1990s, encourages reconsidering arguments contained in them. One such argument is Davidson’s omniscient-interpreter argument (‘OIA’) in Davidson 1983. The OIA allegedly establishes that it is necessary that most beliefs are true. Thus the omniscient interpreter, revived in 2001 and now 20 years old, was born to answer the...
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