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Making It Explicit - Reasoning, Representing, and Discursive Commitment (Paperback, Revised)
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Making It Explicit - Reasoning, Representing, and Discursive Commitment (Paperback, Revised)
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What would something unlike us--a chimpanzee, say, or a
computer--have to be able to do to qualify as a possible knower,
like us? To answer this question at the very heart of our sense of
ourselves, philosophers have long focused on intentionality and
have looked to language as a key to this condition. Making It
Explicit is an investigation into the nature of language--the
social practices that distinguish us as rational, logical
creatures--that revises the very terms of this inquiry. Where
accounts of the relation between language and mind have
traditionally rested on the concept of representation, this book
sets out an alternate approach based on inference, and on a
conception of certain kinds of implicit assessment that become
explicit in language. Making It Explicit is the first attempt to
work out in detail a theory that renders linguistic meaning in
terms of use--in short, to explain how semantic content can be
conferred on expressions and attitudes that are suitably caught up
in social practices. At the center of this enterprise is a notion
of discursive commitment. Being able to talk--and so in the fullest
sense being able to think--is a matter of mastering the practices
that govern such commitments, being able to keep track of one's own
commitments and those of others. Assessing the pragmatic
significance of speech acts is a matter of explaining the explicit
in terms of the implicit. As he traces the inferential structure of
the social practices within which things can be made conceptually
explicit, the author defines the distinctively expressive role of
logical vocabulary. This expressive account of language, mind, and
logic is, finally, an account of who we are.
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