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Rorty VI 184
Language/world/Sellars/Rorty: Thesis: everything is linguistic.
VsSellars: most frequent objection: small children and dogs also have pain without being able to talk about it.
>Psychological Nominalism, >Concept/Sellars, >Consciousness/Sellars, >Pain.
Rorty VI 185
Language/Sellars: cannot be verified on the base of non-liguistical things. Rorty: Therefore, the utility is only interesting for pragmatism.
>Pragmatism.
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Sellars I 81ff
"Our Rylean ancestors"
E.g. Primitive language vocabulary for public properties of public goods, conjunction, disjunction, negation and quantification, and especially the subjunctive conditional. Moreover, vagueness and openness.
>Rylean ancestors.
SellarsVs: an intersubjective language, must be a Rylean language: that rises from a too simple image of the relationship of intersubjective speech and public objects.
>Thinking/Sellars.
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Brandom II 72
Language/Sellars/Brandom: there are languages without theoretical terms - just some terms need to have non-reporting use, so that some may have reporting use.
>Observation language, >Observation sentences, >Theoretical terms, >Theoretical entities.

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