What makes language possible? Ethological foundationalism in Reid and Wittgenstein

Review of Metaphysics

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 483-498

  Harré, Rom ^a   Robinson, Daniel N ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (29)

1. Norman Malcolm, Wittgenstein: From a Religious Point of View, ed. Peter Winch (Oxford: Blackwell, 1995).
2. See Richard Sorabji, Animal Minds and Human Reason (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1993).
3. René Descartes, Discourse on the Method, trans. Robert Stoothoff, in vol. 1 of The Philosophical Writings of Descartes, ed. John Cottingham, Robert Stoothoff, and Dugald Murdoch (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), 140.
4. John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, ed. Alexander C. Fraser (1894; reprint in 2 vols., New York: Dover Publications, 1959), book 3, chap. 2, p. 8.
5. Thomas Reid, An Inquiry into the Human Mind, ed. Timothy Duggan (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970), chap. 4, sec. 2, p. 93.
6. Reid, chap. 4, sec. 2, p. 95.
7. This is discussed in detail in Vernon Reynolds and Rom Harré, The Meaning of Primate Signals (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984).
8. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations (Oxford: Blackwell, 1953), book 1, § 244.
9. Reid, chap. 6, sec. 20, p. 154.
10. Reid, chap. 6, sec. 24, p. 167.
11. Ibid.
12. Gordon P. Baker and Peter M. S. Hacker, Wittgenstein: Rules, Grammar and Necessity (Oxford: Blackwell, 1985), 12.
13. e.
14. Ibid.
15. Baker and Hacker, 28-9.
16. e.
17. Ibid.
18. Reid, chap. 6, sec. 24, p. 168.
19. e.
20. Emile Benveniste, Problems in General Linguistics (Coral Gables: University of Miami Press, 1971), 24.
21. John Bernard and Arthur Delbridge, Introduction to Linguistics (Sydney: Prentice Hall, 1980), 10.
22. John P. Hughes, The Science of Language (New York: Random House, 1962), 5.
23. Webster's New International Dictionary, 3d ed., s.v. "language."
24. Archibald A. Hill, Introduction to Linguistic Structures (New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1958), 9.
25. Hughes, 6.
26. See Brenda Farnell, "Do you see what I mean?" Plains Indian Storytelling and the Embodiment of Action (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995).
27. Avrum Stroll, Wittgenstein and Moore on Certainty (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994).
28. Ludwig Wittgenstein, On Certainty, ed. G. Elizabeth Anscombe and Georg von Wright (Oxford: Blackwell, 1969).
29. Reid, chap. 5, sec. 3, p. 133.