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(2018) Eva Picardi on language, analysis and history, Dordrecht, Springer.
Eva Picardi was a critic of both Chomskyan naturalism and Davidsonian semantic individualism. Though basically agreeing with her on both counts, I reject her identification of Chomsky's notion of "tacit knowledge" of language with Dummett's notion of implicit knowledge, and I argue that Eva's (and Dummett's) criticism of the latter notion does not apply to the former. In the second part of the paper, I take Eva's side in criticizing individualism, providing further reasons for the existence of a (normative) semantic standard and trying to explain what it is and why we are committed to it.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-95777-7_15
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Marconi, D. (2018)., Naturalizing Picardi, in A. Coliva, P. Leonardi & S. Moruzzi (eds.), Eva Picardi on language, analysis and history, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 319-335.
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