You seem to know very little about Grice or about Davidson. They have almost nothing in common. And Davidson as an externalist and as a pragmatist has many allies among, most notably, the German idealists, American pragmatists, Quine, Putnam, Rorty, Dummett, Lorenzen, Brandom, Sellars, Heidegger, Gadamer, Habermas etc.

I'm hardpressed to identify a philosopher who doesn't think knowledge is communal. Foucault: all consciousness is social, for instance.

So beautifully put. 🌹

I dont think "metaphorical" is the right word there

Language is a feature of a biological organism. It has an obvious material basis, though that hasn't been worked out, of course. Figuring that system out, which is hard, is the obvious way forward, not woo-woo romanticisms. :) Having said that, I wouldn't argue that any given utterance is biologically determined: the interesting thing is that it's a biological system with finite limits of all kinds that through recursion creates a literal infinity of individual uses/utterances. Check out some of Chomsky and others in the biolinguistics field. And none of *that* has a thing to say about creativity in writing. Creativity, period, is a bit of a mystery, as it immediately touches on free will vs determinism, which not only no one can really answer (no matter what anyone says) but also is probably the wrong dichotomy to begin with.

@@tunneling-nanotubes Yes, and I don’t think considering language itself as a metaphor as opposed to a biological capacity (a thing) is consistent with what I said.

Langue is very real. It at once imprisons us by its limitations and frees us because of its possibilities.

There is certainly a Relation between music and language. But that Relation is not that of composition.

@@ovrava it certainly is. I can hear a lie in someone's voice.

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