Reid on the priority of natural language

Canadian Journal of Philosophy 41 (S1):214-223 (2011)
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Abstract

Thomas Reid distinguished between natural and artificial language and argued that natural language has a very specific sort of priority over artificial language. This paper critically interprets Reid's discussion, extracts a Reidian explanatory argument for the priority of natural language, and places Reid's thought in the broad tradition of Cartesian linguistics.

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John Turri
University of Waterloo

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