Lewis will not concur with the notion that the language of science is uniquely objective. Furthermore, he rejects categorically the view that there is only one literal language that reproduces the structures of the world. There is no norm in one kind of language that is particularly factual and “about” the world, whereas all other ways of speaking are more or less subjective. This must be said with great care. . . . Lewis is not one to deny the advantage of technical language for its given purposes; but he denies the philosophical notion . . . called “positivism,” which suggests a singular
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