Conditions on understanding language
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 97 (1):41–60 (1997)
| Abstract | Philosophers in general are uncomfortable, if not downright skeptical, about attributing semantic knowledge, particularly of a semantic theory, to ordinary speakers. 2 Those who do not feel the pinch often adopt a two-pronged defense: they rebut skeptics with an array of distinctions (and hedges), contending that the skeptics' confusions arise because they ignore such.. | |||||||||
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