Idiolects

In Judith Thomson & Alex Byrne (eds.), Content and Modality: Themes From the Philosophy of Robert Stalnaker. Oxford University Press (2006)
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Defends the view that the study of language should concern itself, primarily, with idiolects. The main objections considered are forms of the normativity objection.

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