The phrase "a public language" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a language that is accessible and used by the general population, often in the context of communication or discourse.
Example: "In a multicultural society, it is essential to establish a public language that everyone can understand and use."
Alternatives: "a common language" or "a shared language".
It's that "all the propositional thoughts that we consciously introspect... take the form of sentences in a public language".
Second, as remarked above, there are kinds of creature that start out not having a public language and end up fluent in one: namely, our children.
The argument for the lemma is that without a public language you can't have "second-order" thoughts; you can't think about your thinking.
Camus "wrote with dignity, at a moment when restoring dignity to a public language was necessary," Gopnik says in his article, "and he slowed public language at a time when history was moving too fast".
First, the argument that Bermúdez offers to show that the language of thought kind of inferentialism won't work for animals depends on a lemma: namely, that our kind of thinking requires a public language (which animals don't have).
Those who are making a positive impact in our society are using a public language and ministry philosophy that demonstrates a loving concern for the common good and not just fellow believers.
Participants were recruited in a public speech and language service exclusive for children with language impairment (total n = 55).
At best it has a handle on the cognitive psychology of creatures that have mastered a natural (public) language; which, de facto, presumably means just us.
We need a renewed public language for public faith.
From the fall of Athens to the rise of totalitarianism, observers from Thucydides to George Orwell have associated a breakdown in public language – or rhetoric, to give it a more traditional name – with the failure of democracy, loss of freedom, civil strife and, ultimately, tyranny and murder.
Indeed, I believe we are living through what amounts to a crisis in public language.
