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4999 | For behaviourists language is just a special kind of behaviour [Kirk,R] |
Full Idea: Behaviourists regard the use of language as just a special kind of behaviour. | |
From: Robert Kirk (Mind and Body [2003], §7.9) | |
A reaction: This is not an intuitively obvious view of language. We behave, and then we talk about behaviour. Performative utterances (like promising) have an obvious behavioural aspect, as do violent threats, but not highly theoretical language (such as maths). |
4995 | Behaviourists doubt whether reference is a single type of relation [Kirk,R] |
Full Idea: To most behaviourists it seems misguided to expect there to be a single relation that connects referring expressions with their referents. | |
From: Robert Kirk (Mind and Body [2003], §5.5) | |
A reaction: You don't need to be a behaviourist to feel this doubt. Think about names of real people, names of fictional people, reference to misunderstood items, or imagined items, or reference in dreams, or to mathematical objects, or negations etc. |
11240 | The notion of analytic truth is absent in Aristotle [Aristotle, by Politis] |
Full Idea: The notion of analytic truth is conspicuously absent in Aristotle. | |
From: report of Aristotle (works [c.330 BCE]) by Vassilis Politis - Aristotle and the Metaphysics 1.5 | |
A reaction: Cf. Idea 11239. |