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Representation of Language
Georges Rey
其他書名
Philosophical Issues in a Chomskyan Linguistics
出版Oxford University Press, 2020
主題Language Arts & Disciplines / Grammar & PunctuationLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / GeneralLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Psycholinguistics / GeneralLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / SemanticsPhilosophy / Mind & BodyPhilosophy / Language
ISBN019885563X9780198855637
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=BocEEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋This book is a defense of a Chomskyan conception of language against philosophical objections that have been raised against it. It also provides, however, a critical examination of some of the glosses on the theory: the assimilation of it to traditional Rationalism; a supposed conflict between being innate and learned; an unclear ontology and the need of a "representational pretense" with regard to it; and, most crucially, a rejection of Chomsky's eliminativism about the role of intentionality not only in his own theories, but in any serious science at all. This last is a fundamentally important issue for linguistics, psychology, and philosophy that an examination of a theory as rich and promising as a Chomskyan linguistics should help illuminate. The book ends with a discussion of some further issues that Chomsky misleadingly associates with his theory: an anti-realism about ordinary thought and talk, and a dismissal of the mind/body problem(s), towards the solution of some of which his theory in fact makes an important contribution.