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Convention and language
pp. 295-312
Abstrakt
This paper has three objectives. The first is to show how David Lewis' influential account of how a population is related to its language requires that speakers be 'conceptually autonomous' in a way that is incompatible with content ascriptions following from the assumption that its speakers share a language. The second objective is to sketch an alternate account of the psychological and sociological facts that relate a population to its language. The third is to suggest a modification of Lewis' account of convention that will allow one to preserve the claim that there are conventions of language.
Publication details
Published in:
(1998) Synthese 117 (3).
Seiten: 295-312
Referenz:
Jackman Henry (1998) „Convention and language“. Synthese 117 (3), 295–312.