In:
Crítica (México D. F. En línea), Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Vol. 34, No. 101 ( 2002-01-07), p. 27-41
Abstract:
Against Davidson's criticism of the usual notion of a natural language, Dummett and most philosophers of language have argued that such a notion is necessary to account for the normativity of meaning and to avoid declaring meaningless much of our everyday talk on languages. This paper tries to show that both worries are unjustified by arguing that: 1) It is possible to talk of linguistic mistakes without commitment to natural languages in the usual sense; 2) The rejection of natural languages in the usual sense does not entail the possibility of non-trivially private languages; 3) The rejection of natural languages in the usual sense does not entail that conventionalized languages do not exist, but only that their existence is not necessary for linguistic communication.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
1870-4905
,
0011-1503
DOI:
10.22201/iifs.18704905e.2002.964
Language:
Unknown
Publisher:
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Publication Date:
2002
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2253040-X
SSG:
7,36
SSG:
5,1
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