Unconventional Linguistic Normativity: Maybe Not So Deranged After All.
This paper argues that Donald Davidson's infamous denial in "A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs" that there is any such thing as a language, though it may not be fully supported by the arguments given for it in that paper, is nonetheless entailed by his semantic views generally, according to which the l...
| Published in: | Philosophia Vol. 51; no. 3; pp. 1425 - 1444 |
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