Original scientific paper

Intuitions: Rijeka Response to Nenad Miščević

Michael Devitt ; The Graduate Center, the City University of New York, New York, USA

Abstract

This paper is a response to Nenad Miščević’s “Reply to Michael Devitt”, the latest in an exchange on the source of linguistic intuitions. Miščević defends a modifi ed version (“MoVoC”) of the received view that these intuitions are the product of a linguistic competence. I have earlier rejected all versions of the received view urging instead that intuitions are, like perceptual judgments, empirical theory-laden central-processor responses to phenomena. (1) I emphasize here, against Miščević, that this claim about a speaker’s intuitions about strings is not to be confl ated with a claim about her understanding of strings. (2) I develop my claim, addressed by Miščević, that MoVoC is implausible in three ways. But these are not the main problems for MoVoC. For further discussion of those, see Jutronić’s paper in this volume

Keywords

Voice of Competence; Modest Explanation; linguistic understanding; visual analogy; developmental evidence.

Hrčak ID:

253552

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/253552

Publication date:

5.9.2018.

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