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  • Intuitions : the discrete voice of competence
    Miščević, Nenad
    In Devitt's view, linguistic intutitions are opinions about linguistic production or products, most of ten one's own. They result from ordinary empirical investigation, so "they are immediate and ... fairly unreflective empirical central-processor responses to linguistic phenomena", which reactions are, moreover, theory-laden, where the 'theory' encompasses all sorts of speaker's beliefs. The paper reconstructs his arguments, places his view on a map of alternative approaches to intuitions, and offers a defense of a minimalistic "voice-of-competence" view. First, intuitions are to be identified with the data, the minimal "products" of tentative linguistic production of naïve speaker-listeners, and not with their opinions about the data. Second, the data involve no theory and very little prototheory. Third, although there might be admixtures of guesswork in the conscious production of data, these are routinely weaned out by linguists. Finally, mere acceptance of the "voice of competence" does not land us in any objectionable Cartesianism: it is compatible with naturalism and with distrust of apriori philosophy.
    Vir: Croatian journal of philosophy. - ISSN 1333-1108 (Vol. 6, no. 18, 2006, str. 523-548)
    Vrsta gradiva - članek, sestavni del ; neleposlovje za odrasle
    Leto - 2006
    Jezik - angleški
    COBISS.SI-ID - 15126024

vir: Croatian journal of philosophy. - ISSN 1333-1108 (Vol. 6, no. 18, 2006, str. 523-548)

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