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Criteria: Criteria do not follow from a definition but must be developed. The criteria for the application of a concept to an object are more concerned with language practice in a community. E.g. the definition of truth does not provide a criterion for which sentences are true._____________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.
Author
Concept
Summary/Quotes
Sources
Dieter Birnbacher on Criteria - Dictionary of Arguments
Metzinger II 719
"Thinking stones"/Birnbacher: for them we have no criterion.
>Consciousness, >Thinking, >Brain.
Metzinger II 720
Def Criterion/Wittgenstein: "good reasons" to support a hypothesis. Separated from "symptoms".
>Symptoms.
Birnbacher: Criteria are not strictly logically linked to the term whose fullfilment they indicate, but in the weaker sense of the language game community.
>Language game, >Language community.
According to Wittgenstein, criteria are not necessary conditions for existence, but they are necessary conditions for attributability.
>Attribution.
For example, conduct is not a necessary condition of the occurrence of certain internal states, but nevertheless a necessary condition of the attributability of such states.
>Behavior, cf. >Supervenience, >Sufficiency.
Metzinger II 720
Def Symptom/Wittgenstein: empirical correlate to the criteria._____________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.
Birn I
D. Birnbacher
Analytische Einführung in die Ethik Berlin 2013
Metz I
Th. Metzinger (Hrsg.)
Bewusstsein Paderborn 1996