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• Authors: Roman Godlewski

Title variants

EN

THE PROBLEM OF THE RANGE OF LANGUAGE

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article analyses questions concerning the measure of the relation between language and the world. The author distinguishes questions related to the domains of reality that can be described in a given language (these are based on the dualism of content and conceptual scheme so they are dualistic ones) and questions related to the types of objects that you can talk about in a given language (particular ones). Besides, questions about the measure are divided into two categories: 1. ontological (concerning the objects or domains that you can talk about in a given language); 2. transcendental (concerning the experience data that can be considered in a given language). Some problems that arise in the context of presented questions are discussed. Dualistic and transcendental particular questions are recognized as incorrect. Ontological particular questions are limited only to comparisons between object languages, whereas our language (metalanguage) can never be compared to any other. All theses in the article are supported with the author’s own argumentation.

Keywords

EN

RANGE OF LANGUAGE; DUALISM OF CONTENT AND CONCEPTUAL SCHEME; DAVIDSON; QUINE

• Publisher: Oficyna Wydawnicza Epigram
• Journal: Filo-Sofija
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 119-134

Contributors

author

Roman Godlewski