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By Jerrold J. Katz

Jerrold J. Katz bargains a thorough reappraisal of the ''linguistic turn'' in twentieth-century philosophy. He exhibits that the naturalism that emerged to turn into the dominant philosophical place was once by no means competently proved. Katz opinions the most important arguments for modern naturalism and develops a brand new notion of the naturalistic fallacy. This belief, encouraged via Moore, explains why makes an attempt to naturalize linguistics and common sense, and maybe ethics, will fail. He bargains a Platonist view of such disciplines, justifying it because the most sensible rationalization in their autonomy, their objectivity, and their normativity. Jerrold J. Katz is exotic Professor of Philosophy and Linguistics on the Graduate heart of the town college of recent York.

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That linguistic facts can require some interpretation if we are to see them in a revealing light is not a controversial point . Wittgenstein uses analogies with tools and games to get us to see certain linguistic facts in the right light . The linguistic facts with which my line of development begins are those to which speakers refer in certain judgments about the language . Speakers use their language to talk about ships , shoes, and sealing wax , but they also use it to talk about the language itself .

Accordingly , when Wittgenstein later does criticize intension alist views like those of Frege and Moore , the criticisms receive a more sympathetic reception than they actually deserve. ' Wittgenstein s only explicit motivation for introducing use at the end of section 1 is the fact that it provides a basis for criticizing ' Augustine s theory . Although he makes no attempt to show that nothing else would work as well in exposing the defects of that theory , it is fairly obvious that , for this purpose , use is dispensable .

We can maintain a clear view of those facts only if we keep in mind that the significant semantic facts are facts about the use of words , as they are in the shopping example . The discussion in section 5 is thus illustrative of how a general concept of meaning can begin life as an oversimplification and , under the impulse to explain , end as a purported metaphysical truth . Under pressure to explain , a descriptive generalization , first based on a restricted set of cases, is extended to cover the full range .

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