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| Thought, philosophy: a thought corresponds to a complete sentence. There is debate about whether we can attribute such thoughts to animals. See also mentalism, mental states, opacity, thinking, reality, world/thinking, propositional attitudes, propositions, intensions, objects of thought, relation theory, mentalese, computation._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Crispin Wright on Thoughts - Dictionary of Arguments
I 280 Semantic relegation/Wright: Instead of talking about words, talking about facts, objects, substantial truth. Boghossian promised to avoid this descent. Cf. >Semantic ascent. Thought/sentence/object language/meta language/Wright: the question whether the sentence "My lawn is green" is true, depends on its meaning, but not on the status of the thought that my lawn is green. Cf. >Belief state. In the semantic descent of sentence to thought - we left the meaning behind us. >Sentences, >Propositions, >Meaning. WrightVs: this does not do more than sticking your head in the sand. How could the assertion that P escapes the fate of its metalinguistic counterpart if the fate of the latter is sealed only by the cooperation of the content? >Content. Language is not a mere clothing of thought. We have no wordless contact with the thought that P. Thoughts must be mediated symbolically. >Thinking, >Content, >Language, >Language and thinking, cf. >Thinking without language._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
WrightCr I Crispin Wright Truth and Objectivity, Cambridge 1992 German Edition: Wahrheit und Objektivität Frankfurt 2001 WrightCr II Crispin Wright "Language-Mastery and Sorites Paradox" In Truth and Meaning, G. Evans/J. McDowell, Oxford 1976 WrightGH I Georg Henrik von Wright Explanation and Understanding, New York 1971 German Edition: Erklären und Verstehen Hamburg 2008 |
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