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Episode 191: Conceptual Schemes: Donald Davidson & Rudolf Carnap (Part One)
Published 8 years, 4 months ago
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On Davidson's "On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme" (1974) and Carnap's "Empiricism, Semantics and Ontology" (1950).
What does it mean to say that we grasp the world through a conceptual scheme? Are schemes different between cultures or even individuals, such that we can't really understand each other? Davidson thinks that this doesn't make sense.