Dorit makes an excellent point about Katz on analyticity--especially
about his needing to tie his style of semantic analysis to reference (and
thus truth) determination. Though I think I might instead have said,
his needing to tie it to truth- (and thus reference-)determination.
This should open a rich vein.
I agree with nearly everything Dorit said
about my remarks. Of course psychological reality per se doesn't
entail cognitive-/representationalism, and I shouldn't have implied it
did. (But I wasn't so much presupposing c.-/r.`ism myself as just
working with M&L's sense of "concept." As Dorit says, we have
to be eternally vigilant about these undercurrents.) There is a perfectly
good psychological-realist interpretation of Katz, as realist and concrete
as you please, that still has little or nothing to do with M&L-concepts.
To clarify: When I originally said that
there is "nearly constant unclarity" about (a) whether Katz is talking
about "actual cognitive processing,"..., I didn't mean specifically the
"more active and constitutive role in ordinary thought about ordinary things"
that would be needed to make them into M&L-concepts. I meant
only, actual language processing within the speech center.
However, my complaint about Katz' n. c. u. did not
rely on the assumption that a psychological theory of "concepts" would
have to be a theory of M&L-concepts. It's obvious that Katz is
not talking about M&L-concepts. No one would think he was.
But the nearly constant unclarity is still there.