Lexicon of Arguments

 

II 39
Language as a calculus/Hintikka: language as a calculus allows model theory.
>Model theory.
Language as a Universal Medium/Hintikka: the representative of language as a universal medium is not entirely completed by semantic questions. According to Hintikka, they only cannot be represented in the language. Many philosophers today mingle the two conceptions without knowing where they come from.
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Hintikka I 15
Wittgenstein/Hintikka: 1. Language as a universal medium: thesis: it is not possible to look at the language from outside - meaning relationships are required.
Hintikka I 43 ff
Philosophy/Wittgenstein/Hintikka: the thesis of language as a universal medium has as a consequence the idea of the universality of language. (Universal Language). Philosophical views do not enjoy the privilege of formulating in their own meta-language.
As there is no metaphysics, there is no meta logic. The expression 'to understand a sentence' is also not meta logical, but an expression like any other. (Ms 110, 189).
Cf. >Metaphysics, >Universal language.
Hintikka I 15
Language as a universal medium/LUM/Hintikka: the thesis of language as a universal medium (LUM) does not include the impossibility of semantics at all. It is just not possible to articulate. For example Frege has the opinion that the meaning of quantifiers cannot be appropriatly expressed linguistically. >Circular reasoning, >Levels, >Description levels, >Semantics.