...relate to the behaviour of language users. Quine begins the preface to Word and Object as follows: Language is a social art. In acquiring it we have...be involved in a certain systematic indeterminacy. Ten years later he reaffirms the same point: Meanings are, first and foremost, meanings of language....

...with the reasoning which leads to them. Yet surely Quine's epistemological naturalism is well-taken. Language is a social art. In acquiring it we have to depend entirely on intcrsubjectivcly available cues as to what to say and when. Hence there is no justification for collating...

...Grundlage des beobachtbaren Verhaltens anderer Menschen unter öffentlich angebbaren Umständen erwerben: "Language is a social art. In acquiring it, we have...intersubjectively available cues as to what to say and when." (WO. ix)11 Die Möglichkeit von "Privatsprachen" wird somit von vornherein ausgeschlossen. Wir lernen...

...private sense data.58 This view of language neglected a fundamental condition. According to Quine, "Language is a social art. In acquiring it we have...intersubjectively available cues as to what to say and when."59 The Construct Theory is an attempt to make sense of socialization, with its heavy dependency...

...language to observe. In the first sentence of the preface to the book Quine stated his view in a nutshell: Language is a social art. In acquiring it we have...respond overtly to socially observable stimulations. (Word and Object: ix) On the first page of the main text of the book he reiterates: Each of us learns...

...point: "Meaning ... is not a psychic existence; it is primarily a property of behavior." ( [6] : 26-7.) Language is a social art. In acquiring it we have...meanings, unless in terms of men's dispositions to respond overdy to socially observable stimulations. An effect of recognizing this limitation is that the enterprise...

...in "Ontological Relativity." However, Quine's first words in the Preface paint a different picture: Language is a social art. In acquiring it we have...observable stimulations. An effect of recognizing this is that the enterprise of translation is found to be involved in a certain systematic indeterminacy.......

...behavioristic corollary of the equally behavioristic opening lines from the preface to Word and Object: "Language is a social art. In acquiring it we have...intersubjectively available cues as to what to say and when."16 In Word and Object Quine set out to see just how much behavioristic sense can be made of meaning,...

...Quine; .Epistemology Naturalized', in: ders.; Ontological Relativity and Other Essays, aaO, S. 75. Language is a social art. In acquiring it we have...dispositions to respond overtly to socially observable stimulations.10 Quines Antwort steht in unmittelbarem Zusammenhang mit dem, was er zu den Beobachtungssätzen...

...application that provide meaning to our utterances. "Language is a social art," wrote Quine (1960, p. ix). "In acquiring it we have to depend entirely on intersubjectively available cues as to what to say and when." More than 30 years after Quine said that, Jerry Fodor put the point like this: "The content of a thought...