Episode 191: Conceptual Schemes: Donald Davidson & Rudolf Carnap (Part One)

Published: May 28, 2018, 3:36 p.m.

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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.

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