Showing posts with label Quine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quine. Show all posts
Sunday, July 15, 2007
Noam Chomsky, "Language and Interpretation"
Chomsky criticizes central philosophical accounts of what constraints should apply to the study of language: Quine's behaviorism, Davidson's demand that we explain communication, and Dummett's claims about public language. None of these notions are compatible with the actual scientific investigation of language.
Labels:
behaviorism,
Chomsky,
communication,
Davidson,
Dummett,
interpretation,
public language,
Quine,
science
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
H.P. Grice and P.F. Strawson, "In Defense of a Dogma"
Quine's attack on the analytic-synthetic distinction relies on an unacceptable standard of clarity; accepting the standard would rule out all kinds of useful concepts like "means the same as".
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