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On Language, Meaning, and Validity: Philosophy of Education and the Universal Pragmatics of Habermas
Papastephanou, Marianna – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2004
A theory of language may prove conducive to many important and complex issues in philosophy of education. After grouping these issues into four main categories, I explore the possibility and need to back up the categories with a comprehensive theory of language or a cluster of theories of compatible assumptions. I argue that Habermas's universal…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Validity, Educational Philosophy, Linguistic Theory