caa a22 4500 378858289 CHVBK 20180305123340.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e200311 xx s 000 0 mul 10.1515/SATS.2003.93 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/SATS.2003.93 Marvan Tomáš Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences. marvan@flu.cas.cz Interpretability, Perceptual Sensibilities and Triangulation [Elektronische Daten] [Tomáš Marvan] The paper examines the question whether the perceptual and discriminatory capacities of a creature and its disposition to react to things and events determine the nature and limits of what it is able to communicate and understand. Does a significant divergence in perceptual and discriminatory sensibilities of two creatures threaten the possibility of their mutual comprehensibility? It is argued, with the help of Donald Davidson's recent idea of ‘triangulation', that this is indeed the case. By introducing into his theoretical framework the notion of triangulation as a necessary precondition of mastering a language, Davidson is forced to admit the possibility of a breakdown of communication between creatures that do not have sufficiently similar evolutionary histories—his own claims to the contrary nothwithstanding. And this, in turn, seems to threaten his claims about the impossibility of the notion of a language that we could not interpret in our own terms. © Philosophia Press 2003 SATS Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG 4/2(2003-11), 93-107 1600-1974 4:2<93 2003 4 SATS https://doi.org/10.1515/SATS.2003.93 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/SATS.2003.93 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Marvan Tomáš Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences. marvan@flu.cas.cz NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- SATS Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG 4/2(2003-11), 93-107 1600-1974 4:2<93 2003 4 SATS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter