On the "Magic Strategy" in the Context of Human Speech Once More

Abstract

The paper is a response to Tadeusz Skalski's paper „The Magic Strategy and... a Platform to Human Speech”, published in Filozofia Nauki 1/2000. Despite Skalski's claim that the essence of our controversy lies in verbal misunderstandings, I will demonstrate that I disagree with him on three issues: (i) the question of <> both in the context of using ethnic languages and in the context of the origin of these languages; (ii) the concept of emergence; (iii) the evaluation of naturalisation a la Searle.