Subject: PKF: Re: Pluralism and Language
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 18:58:35 +0200


Hi

I will respond next week or the week after. PKF in against method chapter
17 did a job on Whorf but not for linguistic purposes. He revered elements
of Austin to the same degree that he did Quines 3 Dogmas. He for good
reasons detested Searle, on intellectual and personal grounds. But I can do
more in a week or two on this.

The idea of a discussion is good from the previous posting regarding
picking up a PKF book and making notes on the subject for the list.

Regards
AP
----- Original Message -----
From: "Quinn Rusnell" <qrusnell-AT-home.com>
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Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 9:49 AM
Subject: PKF: Pluralism and Language


> My main area of interest is language. I think that language lacks a
proper
> science more than medicine does. The reason, I think, is that scientists
are
> still looking for unified theories (a traditional grammatical theory is
> comparible to the sort of unification we find in non-quantum physics).
The
> internal reason for unification theorists amounts to the belief that the
set
> of everything is a consistent set. Why think that? Language is a product
of
> many independent evolutionary tracks. It seems like a waste of time to
look
> for a unifying principle for independent evotionary tracks. If the couple
> times in our life our babble is effective, saving our life once, and
helping
> us reproduce once, and if the genetic development requires babbling ones
> entire life in order to be effective a couple times, then most of
language
> isn't effective. Historically, I find similar views of language in
> Wittgenstein and John Austin.
>     Does anyone know if Feyerabend tried to say anything about language?
I
> would be interested to see other people apply pluralism to language.
>
> Quinn
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