ABSTRACT
How should we go about finding the truth about language? The received view is that we should proceed by consulting our intuitive judgments about language, our “intuitions.” Indeed, it would be hard to exaggerate both the apparently dominant role of such intuitions in the philosophy of language and the agreement among philosophers that these intuitions should have this role. This emphasis on intuitions reflects, of course, a widely held view about the methodology of “armchair philosophy” in general.
