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What is the difference between the philosophy of language and linguistics?
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December 12, 2006

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Richard Heck
January 2, 2007 (changed January 2, 2007) Permalink

Linguistics is a branch of empirical science. The central questions in linguistics concern how human beings manage to speak and comprehend language. Philosophy of language is a branch of, well, philosophy. Empirical results are relevant to it, but its questions are not necessarily empirical in character.

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