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| Chomsky, N. | Loar Vs Chomsky, N. | EMD II 158 Complexity/Language/Loar: Thesis: it is not too far-fetched to claim that "incomprehensible" complex sentences are not part of our language! So we could reduce English to a finite fragment of the language we would have mastered if our brains were bigger. Then there is no problem for KD: KD: For each sentence s of LO, if L(S) = M, then all members of P know (implicitly or potentially) then if someone expresses S in circumstances where the sentence is free for M en, the speaker thereby expresses M. Vs: this is extremely controversial, and avoidable. Solution/Loar: two stages: 1. Language/infinity/Loar: Thesis: the number of sentences we understand is enormous, but still finite! (LoarVsChomsky: also number of understandable sentences is finite). II 159 2. Stage of the solution: no language that is extended (created) by adding random non-English (sentences cum meaning) is excluded by this condition. |
Loar I B. Loar Mind and Meaning Cambridge 1981 Loar II Brian Loar "Two Theories of Meaning" In Truth and Meaning, G. Evans/J. McDowell Oxford 1976 EMD II G. Evans/J. McDowell Truth and Meaning Oxford 1977 Evans I Gareth Evans "The Causal Theory of Names", in: Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Suppl. Vol. 47 (1973) 187-208 In Eigennamen, Ursula Wolf Frankfurt/M. 1993 Evans II Gareth Evans "Semantic Structure and Logical Form" In Truth and Meaning, G. Evans/J. McDowell Oxford 1976 Evans III G. Evans The Varieties of Reference (Clarendon Paperbacks) Oxford 1989 |
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