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| Acquaintance: direct handling and contact with a subject matter about which statements are to be made as a basis for knowledge. Antonym to knowledge through description._____________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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Jaakko Hintikka on Acquaintance - Dictionary of Arguments
II 22 Description/recognition/identification/individuation/Hintikka: the difference is often represented as: A) assign a name to a face, B) assign a face to a name, A) answer a what-question & B) answer a where-question. Model Theory/Hintikka: the model-theoretical situation is, however, not completely reproduced with this. Therefore, "acquaintance" and "description" should only be taken with some limitations. >Identification, >Individuation, >Model theory, >Description. II 23 Acquaintance/description/Hintikka: acquaintance corresponds to psychology/psychological: a) semantic memory and b) episodic memory. II 144 Acquaintance/reduction/reducibility/Russell/Hintikka: Russell only regarded the quantum of acquaintance as irreducible. This corresponds to the fact that he only regards logical names "this", etc. as real names. II 149 Acquaintance/description/cross-world identification/cross-world identity/Hintikka: (7) Acquaintance can thus be paraphrased: (7) I know who the man is over there. (11) (Ex) Kl (the man there = x) (12) (∃x) Kl (Sir Norman Brook = x) The unexpected parallelism between the everyday translations for (11) and (12) shows that the uniqueness conditions mutatis mutandis work in the same way for both ways of identification (acquaintance/description). World lines: world lines must not change during the course. Cf. >Four-dimensionalism._____________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. |
Hintikka I Jaakko Hintikka Merrill B. Hintikka Investigating Wittgenstein German Edition: Untersuchungen zu Wittgenstein Frankfurt 1996 Hintikka II Jaakko Hintikka Merrill B. Hintikka The Logic of Epistemology and the Epistemology of Logic Dordrecht 1989 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-20