Harman, Gilbert Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University
Print publication date: 1999 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-823802-7







doi:10.1093/0198238029.003.0016

Gilbert Harman
Abstract: There are two approaches to the understanding of the experiences and uses of language of others. One emphasizes translation. The other restricts itself to an objective description of use and function. Each approach by itself must leave something out. We need both approaches.

Keywords: meaning, mind, objective description, translation, understanding,

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Part I Reasoning
Part II Analyticity
Part III Meaning
Part IV Mind