Topic: classification
Topic: models of reality
Topic: philosophy of mind
Topic: vitalism, the soul
Topic: problems with empirical truth
Topic: organizations as systems
Topic: private language argument for skepticism about meaning
Topic: natural language as communication
Topic: what is truth
Topic: limitations of formalism
Topic: problem of classifying information
Topic: metaphysics and epistemology
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Reference
Davidson, D.,
"On the very idea of a conceptual schema",
Proceedings and Addresses of The American Philosophical Association, XLVII, November 1974, pp. 5-20.
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Other Reference
p. 196-208, The Essential Davidson, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006, ISBN 0-19-928885-2
Quotations
5 ;;Quote: conceptual schemes organize experience; reality is relative to a scheme; translation may not be possible
| 7 ;;Quote: identify conceptual schemes with languages and the soul; can languages be non-translatable
| 11 ;;Quote: the third dogma of empiricism is a dualism between a schema that organizes experience and the experience itself; it is vacuous
| 203 ;;Quote: organizing an object means organizing its components; you can not organize a closet independent of organizing its shoes and shirts
| 203 ;;Quote: any language that organizes the ordinary events of experience must be like our own
| 16 ;;Quote: nothing makes sentences and theories true; "My skin is warm" if true iff my skin is warm; no reference to a fact or experience
| 16 ;;Quote: the notion of truth as applied to language is deeply interwined with translation; it is nonsensical to say that a conceptual scheme is largely true but not translatable
| 19 ;;Quote: if we want to understand others, we must count them right in most matters
| 207 ;;Quote: we cannot intelligibly say that conceptual schemes are different or the same; nor can we distinguish conceptual schemes as a partial or total failure of translation
| 20 ;;Quote: reality is not separate from our understanding of reality; reality makes our sentences true or false
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