Investigações em pragmatismo semântico: analogias e dessemelhanças entre Quine e Brandom

Abstract

This paper aims to research the holistic position in semantics, specifically the theses developed by Quine and Brandom in their respective philosophical systems to deal with the problem of meaning. It is intended to establish an introductory dialogue between the authors of interest, in order to identify analogies and dissimilarities between the theses developed by them. It is believed that similarities will be identified between the models that will allow to adopt the inferential understanding proposed by Brandom at least to think the Semantic Holism of Quine. However, it is still not possible to state whether the interconnections, proposed by Quine, accommodate rationalist explanatory models, such as that developed by Brandom. The pragmatic perspective appears as a dimension to be analyzed in order to make approximations and distances between authors. In it, there are aspects that favor dialogue and aspects that draw limits.