LING 2504 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Radical Translation, Comparative Literature, Ancient Philosophy
14 Dec 2015
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Primary contributions in philosophy of mind and action, but with strong connections to his semantics, presents a unified philosophy. Very original, complex thinker one of the most complex and influential philosophers of the 20th cent. Studied comparative literature moved towards ancient philosophy, deeply influenced by quine and plato. Quine"s notion of radical translation , shaped davidson"s views on meaning and communication. Knowing how these new views demonstrate a very different picture of. Pre-conceptualizing what it means to be wrong in speaking and. This system is understood as shared by speaker and hearer prior to. The sort of meaning in which davidson is interested is first meaning. The term first meaning is davidson"s replacement of literal meaning being the dictionary literal meaning, as opposed to how we now use the term literally. This helps him in the project of distinguishing between standard meaning and intended meaning in a more accurate way (cid:2) (cid:2)
