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ЛИНГВИСТИЧЕСКАЯ ТЕОРИЯ В ПОСТИНДУСТРИАЛЬНОМ ДИЗАЙН-ПРОЦЕССЕ ... : LINGUISTIC THEORY IN POSTINDUSTRIAL THE DESIGN PROCESS ...
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Internalist Deflationism: On the Limits of Ontological Investigation ...
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Since Frege(1879), the history of semantics identifies the meanings of natural language expressions with the mind external things they denote, be they pedestrian objects (e.g., cows and chairs), less pedestrian objects (e.g. mereological sums), or abstracta (e.g., sets of possible worlds). For the Quinean Realist, a language with such a semantics is fruitful for ontological investigation, insofar as analyzing the denotational meanings of (the constituents of) sentences in that language reveals which objects populate the (external) worldly domain. However, consigning meaning over to truth in this manner comes at a cost. The externalist thesis is only had by sacrificing the explanatory adequacy of our theory of meaning. Three arguments suggest this: first, facts about the rapid human acquisition of natural language suggests that languages are internal to the human mind, as an innate module in cognitive architecture; second, naturalist commitments suggest that there is no sui generis, mind-independent kind ...
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Externalism; FOS Languages and literature; FOS Philosophy, ethics and religion; Internalism; Linguistics; Metaontology; Metaphysics; Philosophy; Philosophy of Language; Realism
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URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1903/16693
https://dx.doi.org/10.13016/m2gg97
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