David Pitt

List of John Benjamins publications in which David Pitt is involved.

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Pitt, David 2018 Chapter 2. What kind of science is linguistics? Essays on Linguistic Realism, Behme, Christina and Martin Neef (eds.), pp. 7–20 | Chapter
I argue that what determines whether a science is ‘formal’ or ‘empirical’ is not the ontological status of its objects of study, but, rather, its methodology. Since all sciences aim at generalizations, and generalizations concern types, if types are abstract (non-spatiotemporal) objects, then… read more
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