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New paper: 'Linguistic and Philosophical Intuitions and the Core-Periphery Distinction'

Posted On: January 05, 2024

 'Linguistic and Philosophical Intuitions and the Core-Periphery Distinction'. This is a first draft, the final version is to appear in Nefdt, R., Dupre, G., & Stanton, K. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Linguistics, Oxford University Press.

Abstract: Throughout history, philosophers have drawn on language to clarify or uncover philosophically relevant intuitions, making a tacit distincion between core and periphery of language. The paper argues that philosophical intuitions that are reflected in the core of natural language have the same status as linguistic intuitions, neither of which has the status of belief or even acceptance.