Conceptual relativism is a heady and exotic doctrine, or would be if we could make good sense of it. The trouble is, as so often in philosophy, it is hard to improve intelligibility while retaining the excitement. — Donald Davidson Copy Share Image
The dominant metaphor of conceptual relativism, that of differing points of view, seems to betray an underlying paradox. Differentpoints of view make sense, but only if there is a common co-ordinate system on which to plot them; yet the existence… — Donald Davidson Copy Share Image
Conceptual relativism is a heady and exotic doctrine, or would be if we could make good sense of it. The trouble is, as so… — Donald Davidson Copy Share
Even if someone knew the entire physical history of the world, and every mental event were identical with a physical, it would notfollow that… — Donald Davidson Copy Share
Mental events such as perceivings, rememberings, decisions, and actions resist capture in the net of physical theory. — Donald Davidson Copy Share
Nothing in the world, no object or event, would be true or false if there were not thinking creatures. — Donald Davidson Copy Share
There is no such thing as a language, not if a language is anything like what many philosophers and linguists have supposed. Thereis therefore… — Donald Davidson Copy Share
Terminological infelicities have a way of breeding conceptual confusion. — Donald Davidson Copy Share
The dominant metaphor of conceptual relativism, that of differing points of view, seems to betray an underlying paradox. Differentpoints of view make sense, but… — Donald Davidson Copy Share
If we cannot find a way to interpret the utterances and other behaviour of a creature as revealing a set of beliefs largely consistent… — Donald Davidson Copy Share
There are three basic problems: how a mind can know the world of nature, how it is possible for one mind to know another,… — Donald Davidson Copy Share
