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Convergências E Divergências Entre Chomsky E Wittgenstein
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5847122 |
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| Authors | Bruno Antonio Bimbi (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Publication date | 2016-03-31 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | THESIS |
| Publisher | Faculdades Catolicas (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.17771/pucrio.acad.27310 |
| OpenAlex | W4236900536 |
| Language | PT |
| References cited | 5 |
This work reflects on the commensurability between the Chomskyan and the Wittgenstenian perspectives of language in general, and in particular it deals with issues on meaning.The goal of the research was to examine, in the mature texts of Wittgenstein, in the most recent developments of Chomskytaking into consideration the successive changes in generative theoryand in the works of other authors that align themselves with the ideas of one or the other or devote themselves to study them, convergences and divergences relevant to them.The research adopted a pragmatic and anti-essentialist approach to language, more specifically the version of this approach offered by Wittgenstein's more mature philosophy, mostly in his Philosophical Investigations.Without renouncing this approach, the theories of human language supported by Noam Chomsky were analyzed, which are generally considered as opposed to those of the Viennese philosopher, starting from the hypothesis that it is possible to find, in the "dialog" between them, possible complementarities for a better understanding of how human language works.The present work are guided by following thesis: (1) Chomsky's and Wittgenstein's points of view about language are not completely irreconcilable and there can be convergences, divergences and possible complementarities that are worth exploring; (2) the contemporary versions of Chomsky's theories can be more open to a rapprochement with Wittgenstein than past versions; (3) some contradictions between the analysis of Chomsky and Wittgenstein can be attributed to the difference between the points of view and methods of a philosopher and those language of a scientist, or to conceptual confusions originated in the "tricks" of language itselfterms used by them or by their more outstanding commentators in ways that seem highly contradictory, leading us to the conclusion that there is an insurmountable incompatibility between their points of view; (4) at least partially, some of those contradictions can be attributed to the conflict between the Chomskyan hypothesis about the PUC-Rio -Certificação Digital No 1211404/CA Autonomy of Syntax and the almost exclusive preoccupation of Wittgenstein for the meaning.Among other relevant aspects of the ideas of both authors, we will analyze how they use terms like "representation", "mind", "description" and "explanation"; fundamental questions for both, like their ideas about what it is to "learn a language" and "follow a rule", and about distinctive notions of their thought, like the Wittgenstenian notion of "form of life" and the Chomskyan "innate" hypothesis.Finally, we analyze in deep two explicit disputes between Chomsky and Wittgenstein, taking as a starting point two texts of the former that formulate detailed criticism to important aspects of the latter's philosophy: the argument of private language and the criticism of the idea that there are brain processes correlated to thought
Commensurability (mathematics · Dialog box · Epistemology · Essentialism · Generative grammar · Linguistics · Metaphysics · Philosophy of language · Sociology · Computer Science · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition · Mathematics · Philosophy · Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications
| Highly cited | No |
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