Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Perry and Recanati have argued that thought and speech can concern entities that they do not represent. This is possible because speakers and thinkers are pragmatically situated within their environs. I argue that thought and speech can go much farther than that. Consider a semi‐nomadic tribe who tell the time only by sundials, and who say such things as, “Everywhere we go, we dine at 7”. Their speech and cognition can thus transcend the local environment, and concern remote entities without the aid of either representation, or the context of utterance, or that of assessment.
Source: Mind & Language
DOI: 10.1111/mila.12540
Author: Mihnea Capraru
Institution: Nazarbayev University
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $4,150
Funder: Nazarbayev University
Award: G8145082987
OpenAlex ID: W4409619363