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New York University Institute of Philosophy 9th, (1968 : New York)
Imprint:[New York] : New York University Press, 1969.
Descriptionxi, 301 p. ; 21 cm.
Note:Language and culture / Floyd G. Lounsbury -- Some troubles with whorfianism / Max Black -- Language and culture / Harvey Pitkin -- Extreme relativism / Sara Ruddick -- Linguistics and philosophy / Noam Chomsky -- Linguistics and philosophy / W. V. Quine -- Innate knowledge / Rulon Wells -- On the alleged uniqueness of language / Reuben Abel -- Semantical vehicles, understanding, and innate ideas / Arthur Danto -- The emperor's new ideas / Nelson Goodman -- Linguistic competence and empiricism / Gilbert Harman -- Comments on Harman's reply / Noam Chomsky -- Empiricism, rationalism, and innate ideas / Sidney Hook -- On culturlogism / Paul Kurtz -- Linguistics and epistemology / Thomas Nagel -- On knowing a grammar / Robert Schwartz -- Neorationalism and empiricism / Kenneth Stern -- Is linguistic rationalism a rational linguistics? / Marvin Zimmerman -- Language-learning models / Leo Rauch -- Depth grammar and necessary truth / Raziel Abelson -- Natural and formal languages / Paul Ziff -- Language, logic, and states of affairs / Roderick Chisholm -- On Ziff's "natural and formal languages" / Richard M. Martin -- On formalized models of natural language / Herbert G. Bohnert -- Effectiveness and natural languages / George Boolos -- A note on metaphysics and language / Gertrude Ezorsky.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references.
