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| Logic: logic is the doctrine of the admissibility or inadmissibility of relations between statements and thus the validity of the compositions of these statements. In particular, the question is whether conclusions can be obtained from certain presuppositions such as premises or antecedents. Logical formulas are not interpreted at first. Only the interpretation, i. e. the insertion of values, e.g. objects instead of the free variables, makes the question of their truth meaningful._____________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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Claude Lévi-Strauss on Logic - Dictionary of Arguments
I 49 Logic/Bricolage/Lévi-Strauss: there is undoubtedly something paradoxical in the notion of logic, whose terms stand in waste and fragments, traces of psychological and historical processes that as such lack every necessity. >Bricolage/Lévi-Strauss. As far as form is concerned, there is an analogy in them. See Analogy/Lévi-Strauss. I 50 The necessity of this logic exists as the invariance of a semantic or aesthetic nature that characterizes the group of transformations to which these relationships are suitable. ((s)VsLévi-Strauss: "Group of transformations" unclear.) (See Alan Sokal, and Jean Bricmont, Fashionable nonsense: postmodern intellectuals' abuse of science, New York, 1998.) Logic/Lévi-Strauss: this logic works a little like the kaleidoscope... but the products of breakage... must show some similarities. ((s)VsLévi-Strauss: the comparison with a kaleidoscope removes the argumentation from what actually constitutes logic. I 51 Solution/Lèvi-Strauss: he speaks of a "concrete logic". By this he means that the natives, about which his investigations are, are subject to certain constraints in their own perception with regard to the handling of signs and objects. Cf. >Sign/Lévi-Strauss, >Magical thinking/Lévi-Strauss, >Religious belief/Lévi-Strauss._____________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. |
LevSt I Claude Lévi-Strauss La pensée sauvage, Paris 1962 German Edition: Das Wilde Denken Frankfurt/M. 1973 LevSt II C. Levi-Strauss The Savage Mind (The Nature of Human Society Series) Chicago 1966 |
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