Lexicon of Arguments

 

Hintikka I 355
"The emotional language games are based on games of expressions of which we cannot say they are lying." >Language games.
Hintikka: the simple fact that there are language games with correctable moves makes the distinction primary/secondary necessary.
I 356
A child could learn a secondary language game by misleading adults about your feelings. This is in contrast to the introduction (the teaching) of a primary language game with pain expressions.
I 359
When one says: "Evidence can only make the authenticity of the emotional expression probable", this does not mean: instead of certainty, only probability, but only the type of reasoning is different; it is related to the character of the language game. >Evidence, >Certainty.
I 370
Propositional Attitudes/Wittgenstein/Hintikka: the view criticized by Wittgenstein states that each propositional attitude is characterized by a special feeling or other special private experience. And that it is precisely these experiences that we mean by our statements about belief etc...>Propositional attitudes.
I 372
At other points Wittgenstein speaks completely realistically of feelings, states of consciousness etc. only here, with the propositional attitudes it is about something completely different.
III 148
Human/Description/Tractatus/Wittgenstein/Flor: as far as it can be described, it is a series of facts. However, it cannot be said that there is an inner connection between a person's thoughts, feelings and desires, not even between a person's actions and what we normally call the consequences.
In describing a person, there will be no description of a thinking or wanting subject, soul or ego. It would only be descriptions of thoughts, feelings and humans.
VI 97
Emotions/Wittgenstein/Schulte: are, for their part, facts. They can be described quite objectively and are in no way suitable to give value to what they refer to.