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Single Idea 11096

[filed under theme 7. Existence / E. Categories / 5. Category Anti-Realism ]

Full Idea

Discourse generally departmentalizes itself to some degree.

Gist of Idea

Discourse generally departmentalizes itself to some degree

Source

Willard Quine (Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis [1950], 2)

Book Ref

Quine,Willard: 'From a Logical Point of View' [Harper and Row 1963], p.71


A Reaction

I pick this out because I think it is important. There is a continually shifting domain in any conversation ('what we are talking about'), and speech cannot be understand if the shifting domain or department has not been grasped.