Sentence examples for linguistic thesis from inspiring English sources

The focus in this entry will primarily be on the linguistic thesis.

One can in principle embrace the linguistic thesis without embracing the ontological thesis, and vice versa.

But if fictionalism is only a linguistic thesis (compare the distinction between the metaphysical thesis and the linguistic thesis) - and that is how Thomasson appears to understand it, that's not quite true.

One reason that the linguistic and ontological theses are often run together is that the linguistic thesis is often motivated by ontological concerns.

At least for the positivists, therefore, there was a clear reason for distinguishing physicalism (a linguistic thesis) from materialism (a metaphysical thesis).

But materialism as traditionally construed is not a linguistic thesis at all; rather it is a metaphysical thesis in the sense that it tells us about the nature of the world.

Various specific versions of this objection have been lodged, with varying degrees of forcefulness (by, e.g., Feldman 1999, 2001, 2004; Klein 2000, 2005; Kornblith 2000; Sosa 2000; Bach 2005), but they have in common the idea that EC, just because it is a semantic or meta-linguistic thesis, fails to successfully engage and respond to skepticism.

While reminders that EC is a semantic or meta-linguistic thesis helps both to defuse objections like Dretske's and Yourgrau's and to expose as misleading Lewisian presentations of the view, it sets the stage for a more difficult objection for contextualists to counter: namely, that it does not provide a satisfactory resolution of certain skeptical problems.

Together, these two theses entail linguistic relativity: the thesis that speakers of different languages differ in how they perceive and think in virtue of speaking different languages.

Edward Sapir (1929), a student of Boaz, had proposed two interrelated theses: linguistic determinism according to which language influences the way people think, and linguistic variation, according to which languages have profound differences in syntax and semantics (these terms are not Sapir's, but exist in the literature).

A first crucial distinction is between a linguistic and an ontological thesis.