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Triangulation, Objectivity and the Ambiguity Problem

Montminy, Martin

Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, UNAM, publicado en Crítica. Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofía ( (Revistas UNAM)

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Montminy, Martin (2003). Triangulation, Objectivity and the Ambiguity Problem. Crítica. Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofía; Vol. 35 Núm. 105, 2003; 25-48. Recuperado de https://repositorio.unam.mx/contenidos/4115809

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Autor(es)
Montminy, Martin
Tipo
Artículo de Investigación
Área del conocimiento
Artes y Humanidades
Título
Triangulation, Objectivity and the Ambiguity Problem
Fecha
2019-01-08
Resumen
Davidson claims that a creature that has spent its entire life in isolation cannot have thoughts. His two reasons for this claim are that (i) interaction with another creature (what he calls "triangulation") is required to locate the cause of the creature"s responses, and that (ii) linguistic communication is necessary to acquire the concept of objective truth, which is itself required in order to have thoughts. I argue that, at best, these two reasons imply that in order to have thoughts a creature must be ;capableof participating in triangulation, not that it must have already participated in triangulation. I then argue that triangulation doesn"t solve the ambiguity problem; that is, it doesn"t entail that a being"s thoughts and utterances are about distal objects rather than proximal patterns of stimulation. Fortunately, ambiguity, like other forms of indeterminacy, doesn"t entail that we cannot have thoughts.
Tema
Davidson; interpretation; reference; norm; Davidson; interpretación; referencia; norma
Idioma
eng
ISSN
ISSN electrónico: 1870-4905; ISSN impreso: 0011-1503

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