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Publication details [#13989]

Cummings, Louise. 1998. The scientific reductionism of relevance theory: The lesson from logical positivism. Journal of Pragmatics 29 (1) : 1–12.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Person as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166

Annotation

Putnam's critique of the logical positivist account of rationality and its ensuing scientific reductionism is validated within Sperber and Wilson's account of relevance. It is shown how a reductionist analysis causes the undoing of the very notions which demand explanation.