On What We Know We Don’t Know
On What We Know We Don't Know
Explanation, Theory, Linguistics, and
How Questions Shape Them
On What We Know We Don't Know
Explanation, Theory, Linguistics, and
How Questions Shape Them
Sylvain Bromberger
The University of Chicago Press
Chicago and London
Center for the Study of Language and Information
Stanford
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London c 1992 by the Center for the Study of Language and Information
Leland Stanford Junior University All rights reserved. Published 1992 Printed in the United States of America 99 98 97 96 95 94 93 92 5 4 3 2 1
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To the memory of Aristides de Sousa Mendes Portuguese Consul in Bordeaux in June 1940
with gratitude
Contents
Introduction
1
1 An Approach to Explanation 18
2 A Theory about the Theory of Theory and about the Theory of Theories 52
3 Why-Questions 75
4 Questions 101
5 Science and the Forms of Ignorance 112
6 Rational Ignorance 128
7 What We Don't Know When We Don't Know Why 145
8 Types and Tokens in Linguistics 170
9 The Ontology of Phonology 209 with Morris Halle
Bibliography 229
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