Adam Smith’s Essay on Language in regard to Linguistic and Scientific Realism (애덤 스미스(Adam Smith)의 언어학과 실재론적 과학철학)

KIM, KWANGSU (김광수); CHOI, MYUNGWON (최명원)

doi:10.31310/HUM.087.10

Adam Smith’s Essay on Language in regard to Linguistic and Scientific Realism

Journal of Humanities
2022, (87), pp.285-316
DOI : 10.31310/HUM.087.10
Publisher : Institute for Humanities
Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
Received : October 7, 2022
Accepted : October 17, 2022
Published : November 30, 2022

KIM, KWANGSU ¹, CHOI, MYUNGWON ¹

¹성균관대학교

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ABSTRACT

In Adam Smith’s view, language is both a natural expression of reality and an artifact that necessarily emerged in order to understand the natural world and effectively communicate with one another for the sake of human survival and interests. As widely informed by previous studies, Smith’s essay on language in regard to the origin and evolution of language addresses a relationship between cognition and language structure. Along with the advancement of civilization and abstraction capacities in the mind, primal synthetic languages in a typology evolved into modern analytic languages. Under the presumption, we cast light on Smith’s linguistic realism, simultaneously linking it with scientific realism found in his earlier essay on astronomy, which basically acts as a methodological foundation of his moral philosophy. From an epistemological point of view, Smith’s linguistic and scientific realism is complementary and helpful in taking an in-depth look at his system of the human sciences.

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Adam Smith, Linguistics, Abstraction capacities, Language typology, Linguistic realism, Scientific realism

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