Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories
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...That was its "proper function" (Millikan 1984), and, quite literally, its raison d'Stre....
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...This is the doctrine Ruth Millikan calls meaning rationalism, and it is one of the central burdens of her important book, Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories, to topple it from its traditional pedestal (Millikan 1984; see also Millikan, unpublished)....
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...Cf. Sober 1981 and Millikan 1984....
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...Russell's Principle The pernicious role of Russell's Principle has gradually come into better focus for me, thanks in large measure to the sustained attack on it (under the broader label of "meaning rationalism") by Millikan (1984, 1986)....
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...Quine (1960) gave us an extended examination of the evidential and theoretical tasks facing the "radical translator," the imaginary anthropologistlinguist who walks into an entirely alien community—with no string of interpreters or bilingual guides—and who must figure out, using whatever scientific methods are available, the language of the natives....
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