Toward a Deeper Appreciation of Inherited Conventions  

作　　者：Vincent M.Colapietro 

机构地区：[1]The Pennsylvania State University(University Park)and University of Rhode Island,USA

出　　处：《Language and Semiotic Studies》2021年第3期32-54,共23页语言与符号学研究（英文）

摘　　要：Conventionalism makes far too much of conventions,alleging that not only matters of fact,but also the adoption of a framework,are merely matters of convention.Evidential,experiential,and other forms of compulsion are,tout court,dismissed.Justus Buchler,however,crafts a general theory of human judgment in which both conventionality and compulsion are given their due.1 Moreover,he does so in a manner attuned to the axiological dimensions of human communication(whatever its modes or media).These conventions are hardly an ultimately dispensable scaffold.They are rather intrinsically constitutive resources.They also are in countless instances normative.The nature and authority of the normative constraints inherent in many shared conventions(more often than not,enabling constraints)are,however,neither appreciated nor understood.Buchler’s account facilitates us in appreciating and understanding such constraints and much else.

关 键 词：ARBITRARINESS Buchler Cavell COMPULSION CONTINGENCY judgment JUSTIFICATION 

分 类 号：K890[历史地理—民俗学]