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| Individuation, philosophy: the picking out of an object by a determination by means of additional information which is not to be derived from a single statement which contains this object. For example, beliefs are individualized by content, not e.g. by the length of the character strings with which they are expressed. The contents of a belief are, in turn, not individuated by their repetition, but by other contents._____________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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T. Burge on Individuation - Dictionary of Arguments
Frank I 691 Thoughts/Individuation/Burge: how are our thoughts individuated? Thesis: many thoughts are externally individuated: they are necessarily dependent on relationships in which the person is to the physical or, in some cases, the social environment. Cf. >Objects of belief, >Objects of thought. My thought experiments pursue the joint strategy of keeping the history of physical movement, surface stimulation and internal chemical processes constant. I want to show that some thoughts of the person vary. Thesis: the kind of thoughts you can have depends on the relationships in which you are. Question: How can we know of some of our mental events directly, non-empirically Frank I 692 when their identity depends on the environment? A person does not need to explore their environment to know what their thoughts are. (s) The formulation is always "what thoughts", "what kind of thoughts" that avoids the reference to truth conditions, but the content should be known.) Frank I 700 Thoughts/Individuation/Burge: we individuate our thoughts by thinking them and not the others in self-attributing ways. This knowledge is simply not discursive but immediate. >Thoughts. Tyler Burge (1988a): Individualism and Self-Knowledge, in: The Journal of Philosophy 85 (1988), 649-663_____________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. |
Burge I T. Burge Origins of Objectivity Oxford 2010 Burge II Tyler Burge "Two Kinds of Consciousness" In Bewusstein, Thomas Metzinger, Paderborn/München/Wien/Zürich 1996 Fra I M. Frank (Hrsg.) Analytische Theorien des Selbstbewusstseins Frankfurt 1994 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-18