[lit-ideas] Re: It means nothing, absolutely nothing...

Quoting Phil Enns <phil.enns@xxxxxxxxx>:

> Walter O. wrote:
> 
> "'Thoughtlessness' admits of no pluralization, at least not in Russian."
> 
> 
> Typical linguistic prescriptivist!
> 
> So, is this 'admits of no ...' descriptive or transcendental?


WO: Descriptive. "Can admit of no ..." is transcendental. Transcendental claims
- the only claims btw that should be deemed "philosophical" since other
disciplines make non-transcendental claims and only philosophy makes
transcendental claims - intend to identify conceptual or logical conditions
necessary for the possibility of a discourse, practice or competence as well as
the limits there-in. Transcendental claims intend universality and necessity.
Linguistic practice can admit of neither feature. To which any learner of a
second language can well attest. 

Univocally and unequivocally yours,

Walter O.




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