Aporie naturalizmu w ingwistyce
Rhe aporias of naturalism in linguistics

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the lecture are the aporias resulting from naturalistic paradigms in linguistics. The fact that in linguistic research scholars rely exclusively on empirical evidence is nothing reprehensible – it is worth mentioning the recently fashionable oculographic research. However, this research, and in connection with it, the applied methods have their drawbacks. These include the lack of a real basis for diagnosing the correspondence between sequences of words, sentences and/or sequences of neuronal flashes and the content associated with them. The main disadvantage of naturalistically profiled methods is the lack of a real and absolute basis for diagnosing the communication of individuals participating in some communicative system. Such a basis is not provided by linguistic dictionaries or texts in general; nor is such a basis provided by the epistemic experience of the individual constructed on the basis of some texts or other objects and processes occurring in the real world. This defect comes to the fore especially when abstract concepts are the object of communication. For in a naturalistically defined communication system there is no real basis for the diagnosis of what the interlocutors mean when they say, for example: Do you love me? – Of course I love you! Can the naturalist provide a basis for comparing the meaning functions of these sentences? Can he point to some real Tertium Comparationis for the relation apparently implied by their authors?

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