Robert May
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328 appearances
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first heard Jun 2015
last heard Jun 2015
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But this is a part of what has to do with the speech act, not with necessarily with the meaning.
So the only question here is what's the relationship between a speech act
and the meaning of the sentence which is used or employed in that speech act.
And here there's a lot of questions which arise in the philosophy of language.
ranging from some people say there's really no notion of meaning, you get some radical Wittgensteinians that say there's really no notion of meaning, that we just have to you know, any notion of meaning sort of distorts any way we can understand the way speech acts work as a aspect of interpersonal behaviors.
Others, which would be more my view, is that there is a notion of literal meaning, and our understanding of what a speech act is is based on that.
So what we're trying to do here is to understand a certain conceptual relationship, a conceptual relationship between two words of a language, the word Jew and the word kite, and a pairs of that, and see what their conceptual relationship is.
And that we take to be a certain kind of linguistic question, a question about words and the concepts they express.
That should, and I think it does, uh provide a foundation of understanding certain things that are going on when people use these words in this mac in making speech acts.
So I would presume that given what I take these words to mean.
that someone knowing these words and made what you know, made assertions containing them, uh would be people who, in some sense, lack a certain kind of linguistic knowledge or understanding.
That is, that they would
grasping the media, they would not grasp that these things have no extensions.
They think there are such things as kikes and these people we generally call anti-Semites.
People who think that there are such things as niggers we call racists, and they are.
So I think that it's the case of what's the conceptual relationships, what's the claim about what these words mean?
How do they interact with our speech acts?
There's two ways of understanding the conceptual relations of these words.
One is they're different, and the other is they're the same.
I guess it's a third, which is that words like hike have no conceptual structure whatsoever.
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