Cora Diamond--linguistic surfaces

Cora Diamond--The Realistic Spirit (p.55)

'linguistic surfaces':

'sentences used independently of the ties to evidence and consequences which characterize the ordinary application of the expressions which they contain.'

-'The representation was not meant to be taken as an accurate portrayal of how things were...'

-'Conventions of representation of the sort we have been concerned with, in painting or in writing, do not settle truth...'

-(p.62) 'We make sentences called causal laws--when we have learned to reason inductively. To have learned to do so is indeed to have learned to behave in a certain way, and causal generalizations are what we come up with when we behave that way.'