Lexicon of Arguments

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I 113
Language/Convention/Davidson: conventions and rules do not explain the language. - The language explains the conventions.
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Glüer II 50
Language/Davidson: two radical consequences:
1. understanding: for understanding it is basically irrelevant which language the speaker speaks. (DavidsonVsTarski). >Understanding.
II 51
Each language is accessible through causal relations.
2. It is considered trivial that meaning is conventional. What words and sentences mean is a question of social practice.
DavidsonVs: the thesis of the conventional character of language must be abandoned in the radical interpretation! >Radical Interpretation.
II 52
Even the idiolect of a nonconformist, freed from all conventions, can in principle be interpreted as long as we can find access to it via causal hypotheses. Conformism facilitates interpretation, but is not a condition of the possibility of understanding.
Malapropisms are misused or mispronounced foreign words or technical terms.
II 150
Communication/Davidson: is unconventional.

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