Rules and Dispositions in Language Use [electronic resource] /
Demont-Biaggi, Florian.author.
Rules and Dispositions in Language Use explains how correct language use is governed by both rules and general human dispositions. It does so by bringing together themes from Ludwig Wittgenstein and Noam Chomsky, which for many years have been thought to be incompatible.
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Cover; Half-Title ; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Part I Language Use and Rule-Following; 1 Kripke's Wittgenstein; 1.1 The sceptical scenario; 1.2 The sceptical solution; 1.3 Objectivity; 2 The Rule-Following Debate; 2.1 Wittgensteinian views; 2.2 Varieties of realism; Part II The Objective Grounds of Language Use; 3 Objective Grounds; 4 Dummett on Realism and Antirealism; 4.1 Language, truth and meaning; 4.2 The truth-conditional conception of meaning and understanding; 4.3 Dummettian verificationism: intuitionism besieges theories of meaning
4.4 Falsificationism as an alternative?4.5 Meaning, realism and antirealism; 4.6 Miller on truth-conditions and reality; 4.7 Basic statements; 5 Basic Statements and Epistemic Rules; 5.1 Analyticity returns; 5.2 Objections and extensions; 5.3 The problem: transmitting justification in deductive reasoning; 5.4 Blind reasoning: inferences built into concepts?; 5.5 Entitlement by proof, truth and common ground; 5.6 And now?; Part III Linguistic Powers and Their Proper Study; 6 Linguistic Powers; 6.1 Knowledge of language; 6.2 From knowledge to competence; 6.3 The Chomskian perspective
6.4 Baker and Hacker on Chomsky6.5 Methodological naturalism and internalism; 6.6 Chomsky's methodological naturalism; 6.7 Chomsky and the mereological fallacy; 7 Logic and Language; 7.1 Medieval logicians on logical form and grammatical form; 7.2 Frege's innovations and the separation of logical form from grammatical form; 7.3 How Russellian descriptions suggest a separation of logical form from grammatical form; 7.4 An alternative notation; 7.5 The alleged affinity between grammar and logic; 7.6 Pietroski's Davidsonian suggestion; 7.7 A Wittgensteinian perspective; Glossary; Notes
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Rules and Dispositions in Language Use explains how correct language use is governed by both rules and general human dispositions. It does so by bringing together themes from Ludwig Wittgenstein and Noam Chomsky, which for many years have been thought to be incompatible.
Philosophy of mind.
Linguistics
Grammar, Comparative and general.
Philosophy of Mind.
Philosophy of Language.
Linguistics, general.
Syntax.