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I presented a similar, earlier version of this paper at the international workshop on The chomskyan Turn: Generative Linguistics, Philosophy, Mathematics and Psychology (April 11–14, 1988) at Tel Aviv University and the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. My thanks for the generous support of the Institute, and the comradery, intelligence, and gracious humanity of Jonathan Berg, Morris Halle, Asa Kasher (the host), Bob Matthews, Tanya Reinhart and other conferees (D.H. Auden'sline, “ironic points of light flash out where the just exchange their messages”, tempts one, if only because the line, “as the last hopes expire of a low, dishonest decade”, consorts with it in his poem, “September 1st, 1939”). Noam Chomsky made extensive and helpful comments on an earlier draft of this paper; from my own Department, Bredo Johnsen made several useful editorial corrections and Greg Brown made an essential scholarly suggestion; Dora Pozzi (Classics, University of Houston) did the real work of the translation of footnote 51; my student, Valerie Walker, made several careful critical comments. Rom Harre and Roy Bashkar had useful things to say about an unpublished paper titled “Consciousness and Narration”, which included much of section II, along with other material on narrative, that I delivered to the Conference on Narratology (November 11th, 1986) held at Linacre College, Oxford.
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Leiber, J. “Cartesian” linguistics?. Philosophia 18, 309–346 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02380646
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02380646