[lit-ideas] R. M. Yost, Jr.
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- Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:30:02 EDT
From an online source, an essay on the Paradigm Case Argument acknowledging
Prof. R. M. Yost, Jr. -- Thought I'd share with Yost.
Cheers,
JLS
The paradigm-case argument and 'possible doubt' *
Author: Laurence D. Houlgate a
Affiliation: a University of California, Los Angeles
DOI: 10.1080/00201746208601359
Publication Frequency: 6 issues per year
Published in: Inquiry, Volume 5, Issue 1 - 4 1962 , pages 318 - 324
Subject: Philosophy;
This article is primarily a defense of the Paradigm-Case Argument (PCA).
It is secondarily a comment on a recent controversy over the validity of its
use in philosophy. I shall submit that the controversy rests on a
misinterpretation. By extending the analysis of the objections (and here I
shall
invoke Descartes' famous method of 'possible doubt') I shall show that the
occurrence of a paradigm and the fact that a concept is normally used to
describe that paradigm logically entail not that the paradigm is instantiated,
but only that it is correct to apply that concept to that paradigm. In this
manner the ontological fallacy is avoided, and further, we have enforced
the important separation between saying something about the correct
application of a concept and saying something about its meaning.
* I should like to acknowledge my indebtedness to Dr. Stanley Cavell,
certain of whose remarks in lecture on the later philosophy of Wittgenstein
inspired me to this article. None of these thoughts, however, should be
attributed to him, nor is this to imply that he would agree to any part of the
content. I am indebted also to a friend, Mr. William Forgie, without whose
discussion these thoughts should never have been set down. Thanks also to
Professors R. M. Yost, Jr. [...]"
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