On the Way to Language

In Lewis Hahn (ed.), The Philosophy of Donald Davidson (Library of Living Philosophers). Open Court (1999)
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The paper is an examination of how Davidson's holism constrains his account of language learning. The problem is that holism implies that in learning a language we cannot pass through stages of knowing part of the language. Rather, some sense must be found for the notion of partly knowing the whole language.

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