Conceptual schemes are often identified with sets of inter-translatable languages. According to Donald Davidson we would be unable to interpret speech from a different conceptual scheme as even meaningful. Thus conceptual schemes that are different in a radical way from each other correspond to languages that are not inter-translatable but, in a Davidsonian view, a total failure of inter-translatability among languages is impossible. In this paper a comparison is made for the first time between Davidson and Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, in whose works the expression “conceptual apparatus” replaces “conceptual scheme”. We mean to point out that conceptual schemes provide us with means for thinking about a reality which includes ourselves. They are essentially operational perspectives on the world, and to deny that different conceptual schemes exist is absurd.
Language and Conceptual Schemes
MARSONET, MICHELE
2008-01-01
Abstract
Conceptual schemes are often identified with sets of inter-translatable languages. According to Donald Davidson we would be unable to interpret speech from a different conceptual scheme as even meaningful. Thus conceptual schemes that are different in a radical way from each other correspond to languages that are not inter-translatable but, in a Davidsonian view, a total failure of inter-translatability among languages is impossible. In this paper a comparison is made for the first time between Davidson and Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, in whose works the expression “conceptual apparatus” replaces “conceptual scheme”. We mean to point out that conceptual schemes provide us with means for thinking about a reality which includes ourselves. They are essentially operational perspectives on the world, and to deny that different conceptual schemes exist is absurd.
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