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Lawlikeness: Here we are concerned with the status of statements which describe regularities but may not be laws of nature. See also Laws of nature, Regularities, Regularity theory, Laws._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Jerry Fodor on Lawlikeness - Dictionary of Arguments
IV 86 Holism/radical interpretation/RI/Davidson/Fodor/Lepore: Davidson's argument for holism is based on his assumption that individual sentences, e.g. "Kurt belongs to the German-speaking Community and Kurt holds true": "It is raining on Saturday afternoon and it is indeed raining in Kurt’s area on Saturday afternoon" are lawlike (laws). >Radical interpretation, >Holism, >Laws. Fodor/LeporeVsDavidson: the generalizations thereof e.g. (x)(t)(if x belongs to the German-speaking community, then x holds "it s raining" to be true at t if and only if it is raining in the vicinity of x at t) do not support counterfactual conditionals and therefore, according to Davidson's definition of the law, are not lawlike. There is no support of counterfactual conditionals. E.g. the meaning of "it is raining" could be: "the cat is on the mat", then it does not follow that the cat is not on the mat when it is not raining. IV 87 Solution: "... for a relation R and each speaker S..." then the statement is nomological, but not yet a radical interpretation. Lawlikeness: we only had to assume lawlikeness because of the conventionality of language. Problem: the radical interpretation cannot find out conventionality by definition. IV 89 Radical Interpretation/RI/Fodor/Lepore: our image of the radical interpretation is much richer than that of Davidson. IV 90 Problem: the nomological approach is not holistic._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
F/L Jerry Fodor Ernest Lepore Holism. A Shoppers Guide Cambridge USA Oxford UK 1992 Fodor I Jerry Fodor "Special Sciences (or The Disunity of Science as a Working Hypothesis", Synthese 28 (1974), 97-115 In Kognitionswissenschaft, Dieter Münch, Frankfurt/M. 1992 Fodor II Jerry Fodor Jerrold J. Katz Sprachphilosophie und Sprachwissenschaft In Linguistik und Philosophie, G. Grewendorf/G. Meggle, Frankfurt/M. 1974/1995 Fodor III Jerry Fodor Jerrold J. Katz The availability of what we say in: Philosophical review, LXXII, 1963, pp.55-71 In Linguistik und Philosophie, G. Grewendorf/G. Meggle, Frankfurt/M. 1974/1995 |