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Barber, Alex
(2001).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0017.00169
Abstract
A linguistic theory is correct exactly to the extent that it is the explicit statement of a body of knowledge possessed by a designated language-user. This popular psychological conception of the goal of linguistic theorizing is commonly paired with a preference for idiolectal over social languages, where it seems to be in the nature of idiolects that the beliefs one holds about one's own are ipso facto correct. Unfortunately, it is also plausible that the correctness of a genuine belief cannot consist merely in that belief's being held. This paper considers how best to eliminate this tension.
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- 5918
- Item Type
- Journal Item
- ISSN
- 0268-1064
- Extra Information
- The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.com
- Keywords
- idiolects; philosophy of language; philosophy of linguistics; epistemology of language; objectivity of knowledge
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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies > Philosophy
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) - Depositing User
- Alex Barber