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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. | |||
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C. Hempel on Criteria - Dictionary of Arguments
II 104 Verifiability Criterion/Hempel: the domain of cognitively significant language is that of potential knowledge, i.e. the verifiable domain. >Significance. II 106ff Empiricist Criterion of Meaning/Hempel: we need verifiability, not actual, but in principle, otherwise the statement "Planet Neptune did not exist prior to his discovery" is possible. It is enough that the impossibility of the verifiability is "merely empirical" - "empirically impossible"/metaphysically impossible? >Metaphysical possibility. II 114 Empiricist Criterion of Meaning/Carnap/Hempel: solution: the translatability into empiricist (artificial, ideal) language offers a solution here. II 121 Translations are indirectly a partial interpretation of the hypothesis and the constructions through which they are formulated. >Translation, >Interpretation, >Hypotheses. II 125 Empiricist Criterion of Meaning: the empiricist criterion of meaning is a linguistic design, neither true nor false. 1) The explication should provide a nearly complete analysis of the generally accepted sense of the explicandum. 2) It is supposed to carry out a rational reconstruction of the explicandum. >Rational reconstruction/Hempel, >Rational reconstruction/Quine._____________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. |
Hempel I Carl Hempel "On the Logical Positivist’s Theory of Truth" in: Analysis 2, pp. 49-59 In Wahrheitstheorien, Gunnar Skirbekk, Frankfurt/M. 1977 Hempel II Carl Hempel Problems and Changes in the Empirist Criterion of Meaning, in: Revue Internationale de Philosophie 11, 1950 German Edition: Probleme und Modifikationen des empiristischen Sinnkriteriums In Philosophie der idealen Sprache, J. Sinnreich, München 1982 Hempel II (b) Carl Hempel The Concept of Cognitive Significance: A Reconsideration, in: Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 80, 1951 German Edition: Der Begriff der kognitiven Signifikanz: eine erneute Betrachtung In Philosophie der idealen Sprache, J. Sinnreich, München 1982 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-19