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意义整体论是过去20年来语言哲学界讨论热烈,且极具争议的话题。有一派观点认为,意义整体论是错的,因为它将带来糟糕的后果:如果意义整体论正确,则语言习得、交流与理解将成为不可能;意义整体论与组构原则冲突。本文认为这些反驳意义整体论的证据并不有效,因为这些证据只涉及意义整体论所带来的糟糕后果,而没有讨论意义整体论的存在论地位。本文认为意义整体论是成立的,因为它满足了整体论存在的充分必要条件:语言表达式具有一组家族定性属性;语言表达式之间以类属存在的方式相互依赖,且以适当的方式排列组合,统一于语言整体之中。
Meaning Holism is a heated and controversial topic in the linguistic and philosophical community over the past two decades. Some people think that meaning holism is wrong because it will have terrible consequences: if the holism of meaning is correct, then language acquisition, communication and understanding will not be possible; meaning holism conflicts with the principle of organization. This paper argues that these evidences of disproving holism are not valid because they only deal with the terrible consequences of holism of meaning without discussing the existential position of holism of meaning. This paper holds that the meaning holism is valid because it satisfies the necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of the holism: linguistic expressions have a family of qualitative attributes; linguistic expressions are interdependent in a generic existence and, in an appropriate way Arrange the combination, unified in the language as a whole.