Analysis (Madrid, ISSN: 2386-3994)
Published November 9, 2018 | Version v1
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Language not mysterious? [¿El lenguaje no es misterioso?]

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  • 1. McGill University, Canada

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In this article argue that is linguistic rationalism is guilty of ignoring the fact that an understanding of the non-conceptual realm of disclosive symbolic forms —those that are used to make, for example, a feeling or a way of being accessible to someone without asserting it— is also a necessary feature of participation in linguistic practice. I suggest that Brandom is dangerously close to displaying a scientistic insensitivity to an important and positive sense in which our linguistic practice ought to remain mysterious to us.

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