Fallacies in the Historiography of Generative Linguistics

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András Kertész
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[1] University of Debrecen,MTA
[2] Institute of German Studies,DE Research Group for Theoretical Linguistics
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Foundations of Science | 2019年 / 24卷
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Linguistic historiography; The history of generative linguistics; Fallacy; Plausible argumentation;
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The paper relates two different fields of research: the historiography of generative linguistics and argumentation theory, a central topic of which is the investigation of fallacies. Relating the two fields is a challenge: Since fallacies seem to be at the heart of the historiography of generative linguistics, any thorough evaluation of its present state of the art also involves accounting for fallacies. The paper applies Kertész and Rákosi’s p-model of plausible argumentation to a case study on heated discussions in the historiography of generative linguistics. As a result, basic properties of fallacious argumentation are revealed and delimited from plausible argumentation in linguistic historiography. In addition, the paper also draws generalizable conclusions that may affect the historiography of other human sciences as well.
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