Lexicon of Arguments

 

I 57
NagelVsprimacy of language: leads to the devaluation of reason, decay product of analytic philosophy.
>Linguistic turn, >Analytic philosophy.
Rejection of Frege. Thinking is often not linguistical. The most common forms of thinking do not depend on any single language.
>Thinking without language.
I 57
If language reveals principles of thought, this is not because logic is grammar, but because grammar follows a logic.
>Logic, >Grammar, >Thinking, >Thoughts.
I 61
That "and" has become the word for the conjunction by contingent circumstances has no concequences for the status of the true statement that p is implied by p and q. What a set of sentences means depends on conventions. What follows from a set of premises does not depend on them (formal).
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Rorty VI 144 ff
NagelVsDennett/Rorty: his "hetero-phenomenology" is not sufficient.
>Heterophenomenology.
Nagel thesis: the sources of philosophy are preverbal, their problems are not dependent on culture.
Rorty VI 144 ff
NagelVsWittgenstein: (according to Rorty): the limits of language are not the limits of thinking! "The content of some thoughts goes beyond any form that they may take in human consciousness." (Per distinction scheme/content).
>Scheme/content.