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Magnus Aardal, stipendiat ved UiO:

How to criticise Glock's understanding of perspicuous

representations (without presupposing the correctness of therapeutic readings)

Abstract: This paper takes as its starting point Phil Hutchinson's

2004 critique of Glock?s understanding of perspicuous representations.

Glock believes that perspicuous representations clarify confusions and

constitute a mapping of how words can be used and what makes sense to

say. Hutchinson (and Read) maintain that perspicuous representations

only remove confusion. I want to show that we can improve on the

critique of Glock even without assuming that the therapeutic reading

is attractive as a philosophical position.