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Lajos Brons deposited Applied relativism and Davidson’s arguments against conceptual schemes on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months ago
This paper argues that Davidson’s argument against conceptual schemes fail against so-called “Applied Relativisms”, i.e. theories of conceptual relativism found outside philosophy such as Whorf’s. These theories make no metaphysical claims, which Davidson seems to assume. Ultimately, the misunderstanding (and resulting strawman argument) illustrates (the effect of) differences in conceptual scheme more than that it undermines it.