Lexicon of Arguments

 

McDowell I 177
PutnamVsDavidson: when the cause-effect description is complete, then the sounds that we utter, cannot be more than a mere "expression of our subjectivity".
RortyVsPutnam: Putnam understands by a "declaration of X" still a synopsis, the synthesis of external and internal position.
Representatives of disquotation believe that people can only be described in a behaviorist manner. But why should it be impossible to consider supplements by normative representations? (Putnam's philosophy was ultimately traditional.)
>Disquotation, >Behaviorism, >Norms/Putnam.
McDowell I 177
Causality/Putnam: the desire to tell a story about the causal relationships of human pronouncements and environment, does not rule out that one invents a story, after the speakers are expressing thoughts, and make assertions, and try to not make mistakes.
These stories are then eventually not distinguishable.
>Causal theory of knowledge, >Pragmatism.