Conventions and Their Role in Language.
Two of the most fundamental questions about language are these: what are languages?; and, what is it to know a given language? Many philosophers who have reflected on these questions have presented answers that attribute a central role to conventions. In one of its boldest forms such a view runs as...
| Publicado en: | Philosophia Vol. 41; no. 1; pp. 137 - 159 |
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