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The Unity of Language

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Andrea Nye
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Abstract

This paper identifies the founding project of traditional philosophy of language as an attempt to unify the diversity and individuality of spoken language in order to produce a transpersonal intelligibility. The supposed necessary truth that we cannot directly understand what others say which underlies such a project is exposed as a willful avoidance of the discourse of others typical of masculine styles of communication.

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Hypatia , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , Summer 1987 , pp. 95 - 111
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Copyright © 1987 by Hypatia, Inc.

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