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Realism and Observation: The View from Generative Grammar
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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Standard proposals of scientific anti-realism assume that the methodology of a scientific research program can be endorsed without accepting its metaphysical commitments. I argue that the distinction between competence, the rules governing one’s language faculty, and performance, linguistic behavior, precludes this. Linguistic theories aim to describe competence, not performance, and so must be able to distinguish observations reflective of the former from those reflective of the latter. This classification of data makes sense only against the background of a psychologically realistic view of linguistic theory. So the very methodology of the science commits one to its realistic interpretation.</jats:p>
Acceptance Date | Feb 11, 2022 |
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Publication Date | Feb 11, 2022 |
Journal | Philosophy of Science |
Print ISSN | 0031-8248 |
Publisher | The University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 1 - 37 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1017/psa.2022.2 |
Publisher URL | https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/philosophy-of-science/article/realism-and-observation-the-view-from-generative-grammar/66344E922DFAB0F861842509F143EA03 |
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