Texts without Types and Lumps without Laws
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4270933 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mary Hesse (0000-0001-8472-2825, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 31 |
| Publication date | 1985-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Literary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-6087 • E-ISSN: 1080-661X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/468976 |
| OpenAlex | W2316400815 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
O NE OF the themes of this conference can be expressed in terms of the question, Can there be nonarbitrary meanings without metalinguistic rules? I want to draw an analogy with a similar question, Can there be nonarbitrary scientific descriptions and predictions without laws? I shall answer Yes to the second question and draw some morals for the discussion of the first. Rorty's introductory paper Texts and Lumps suggests a fourfold classification of views about literary interpretation and science in which Dualists are contrasted with Unitarians: (D1) Dualist 1: There are real types in nature, and hence there are universal natural laws, but there are no real types in interpretation, either in terms of real meanings inside or outside author's heads, or in terms of universal laws of mental events. (D2) Dualist 2: There are no real types in nature (or if there are they are known to God alone), but there are real knowable types in interpretation because like can know like, and we have an access to human minds that we do not have to nonhuman
Political science · Law · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,03 |
| Citation span | 1988 - 1988 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |