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| Ideal language: An ideal language is a hypothetical language that is free from the ambiguities and vagueness of natural language. Some philosophers believe that an ideal language is necessary for doing philosophy properly, while others argue that it is not. See also Universal language, Formal language, Formalization, Ambiguity._____________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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Hans-Georg Gadamer on Ideal Language - Dictionary of Arguments
I 419 Ideal Language/Gadamer: Leibniz: (...) in the combinatorics of a (...) performed system of signs - this was Leibniz's idea - new truths could be obtained which would be of mathematical certainty, because the "ordo" I 420 portrayed by such a sign system would have a correspondence in all languages.(1-3) >Ideal Language/Leibniz, >G.W. Leibniz. GadamerVsLeibniz: In truth, this ideal makes it clear that language is something other than a mere sign system for designating the objective whole. The word is not only sign. >Words, >Signs. In a sense that is difficult to grasp, it is also almost something like an image. One only needs to consider the extreme counter-possibility of a pure artificial language to recognize a relative right in such an archaic theory of language. The word is mysteriously bound to the "depicted", belonging to the being of the depicted. >Representation, >Image, >Image theory, >Word meaning. I 421 [With the rational construction] of an artificial language (...) one moves (...), it seems to me, in a direction that leads away from the essence of language. Linguisticality is so completely in line with the thinking of things that it is an abstraction to think the system of truths as a given system of possibilities of being, to which a sign could be assigned, which a subject reaching for these signs uses. Cf. >Formal language, >Formal way of speaking. Gadamer: The linguistic word is not a sign that one reaches for, but it is also not a sign that one makes or gives to another, not a being thing that one takes up and loads with the ideality of meaning in order to make another being visible. This is wrong on both sides. Meaning: Rather, the ideality of meaning lies in the word itself. It has always been meaning. But this does not mean, on the other hand, that the word is ahead of all experience of being and externally adds to an already made experience by making it subject to itself. The experience is not, at first, wordless and is then, through the naming, made an object of reflection, for instance in the manner of subsumption under the generality of the word. Rather, it belongs to experience itself that it seeks and finds the words that express it. 1. Cf. Leibniz, Erdm. p. 77. 2. Leibniz, De cognitione, veritate et ideis (1684) Erdm., p. 79ff. 3. As is well known, already Descartes in his letter to Mersenne of November 20, 1629, which Leibniz knew, developed the idea of such a sign language of reason, which contained the whole of philosophy, on the model of the formation of number signs. A preform of this, admittedly in platonizing restriction of this idea, is already found in Nicolaus Cusanus, Idiota de mente Ill, cap. VI._____________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. |
Gadamer I Hans-Georg Gadamer Wahrheit und Methode. Grundzüge einer philosophischen Hermeneutik 7. durchgesehene Auflage Tübingen 1960/2010 Gadamer II H. G. Gadamer The Relevance of the Beautiful, London 1986 German Edition: Die Aktualität des Schönen: Kunst als Spiel, Symbol und Fest Stuttgart 1977 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-28