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| Material Speech: Context-related manner of speaking. Concept by R. Carnap (R. Carnap, Logical Syntax of Language, 1968, p. 239) for the delimitation of formal speech. Problems arise with regard to the content-related manner of speaking if it uses general terms which can be translated into a formal language in various ways._____________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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Rudolf Carnap on Material Speech - Dictionary of Arguments
Horwich I 93 Material speech/Carnap/Schlick: is not wrong, but tends to pseudo problems. - Hempel: E.g. "empirical statements express facts." - Schlick: facts are harmless, what else should sentences express? - Formal speech: E.g. "words that denote symbols and words that denote other things can occur in the same sentence." ((s) i.e. about the syntax) - formally: e.g. "the rules of the word "fact" are such that it should not be used". - - - Carnap II 205f Def Formal speech: expresses itself in pseudo object sentences (quasi syntactic sentences). Def formal phrase: uses parallel syntactic phrases. CarnapVsTradition: generally uses neither object nor syntactic sentences. To be scientifically meaningful, the sentences used would have to be expressed as syntactic sentences in a content-wise manner. Carnap: The content-related way of speaking does not have to be eliminated at all. One only has to be aware that one uses it in order to avoid endless pseudo discussions. II 206 For example, content, material speech: positivism: (1) A thing is a complex of sensations Realism: (2) A thing is a complex of atoms. Here (1) and (2) are only seemingly incompatible! Formal speech: (1.1) Each sentence in which a thing designation occurs is content = with a class of sentences in which no thing designations occur, but sensory designations. (2.2) Each sentence in which a thing name occurs is content = with a sentence in which space-time coordinates and certain descriptive functors (of physics) occur. >Formal speech._____________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. |
Ca I R. Carnap Die alte und die neue Logik In Wahrheitstheorien, G. Skirbekk (Hg), Frankfurt 1996 Ca II R. Carnap Philosophie als logische Syntax In Philosophie im 20.Jahrhundert, Bd II, A. Hügli/P.Lübcke (Hg), Reinbek 1993 Ca IV R. Carnap Mein Weg in die Philosophie Stuttgart 1992 Ca IX Rudolf Carnap Wahrheit und Bewährung. Actes du Congrès International de Philosophie Scientifique fasc. 4, Induction et Probabilité, Paris, 1936 In Wahrheitstheorien, Gunnar Skirbekk, Frankfurt/M. 1977 Ca VI R. Carnap Der Logische Aufbau der Welt Hamburg 1998 CA VII = PiS R. Carnap Sinn und Synonymität in natürlichen Sprachen In Zur Philosophie der idealen Sprache, J. Sinnreich (Hg), München 1982 Ca VIII (= PiS) R. Carnap Über einige Begriffe der Pragmatik In Zur Philosophie der idealen Sprache, J. Sinnreich (Hg), München 1982 Horwich I P. Horwich (Ed.) Theories of Truth Aldershot 1994 Ca VIII (= PiS) R. Carnap Über einige Begriffe der Pragmatik In Zur Philosophie der idealen Sprache, J. Sinnreich (Hg), München 1982 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-28