PHIL Questions

PHIL Questions

Question 1

“Mere verbal dispute is not a question about facts: it is a question about how we should use words Sometimes words matter”. This was said by W. Gray and it means that Disputes over words are sometimes important disputes, when something important rests on matters of linguistic usage. In linguistics and the philosophy of language, for example, words are the primary domain of concern, so that a disagreement over the meaning of 'round' cannot simply be set aside. The same applies in some cases where we are studying the users of words. In literary criticism or ...