Donald Davidson (philosopher) Quote

There is no such thing as a language, not if a language is anything like what many philosophers and linguists have supposed. Thereis therefore no such thing to be learned, mastered, or born with. We must give up the idea of a clearly defined shared structure which language-users acquire and then apply to cases.


Truth, Language, and History (ed. Oxford University Press, 2005) - ISBN: 9780198237563


There is no such thing as a language, not if a language is anything like what many philosophers and linguists have supposed. Thereis therefore no...

There is no such thing as a language, not if a language is anything like what many philosophers and linguists have supposed. Thereis therefore no...

There is no such thing as a language, not if a language is anything like what many philosophers and linguists have supposed. Thereis therefore no...

There is no such thing as a language, not if a language is anything like what many philosophers and linguists have supposed. Thereis therefore no...