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| Various Authors | Black Vs Various Authors | III 135 Lie/Creativity/George Steiner: Thesis: in lies, we can discover the "creativity of falsehood". (After Babel, NY, 1973, p 220). This was supposedly a "deep intuition of the Greeks". Steiner quotes Nietzsche approvingly: the lie, not the truth is divine. He seems to endorse the view according to which the "lie is a necessity of life". BlackVsSteiner: Bentham would have called that "nonsense on stilts". That is the academic version of humbug III 136 which says more than you can mean at all. ((s) Without changing the meaning of words). III 62 Knowledge/Black: this term is very difficult to grasp. III 63 The verb is used in many contexts like "knowing how" hunger feels, or how to drive a car, etc. Truth: E.g. "I know that it is Monday" implies truth. There is a logical connection between knowledge and truth. Science/Black: It cannot simply pursue truth. The truth must be accessible to us!. Science skepticism: E.g. J. Ravetz: Thesis: "the pursuit of truth as the goal of science is outdated". Truth is not just inappropriate here, but irrelevant. III 64 Ravetz: "... tomb stone of academic science ..." (Ravetz, Scientific knowlede and social problem, Oxford 1971, pp. 20, 21, 28). BlackVsRavetz: I see no difference between academic science and just science. With friends like Ravetz science does not need enemies like Roszak!. III 42 Def Rational/Rationality/K. Mannheim: (London 1940 p. 53): "substantial rationality": "intelligent behavior based on one’s own insight into the connections between events". Intelligence/BlackVsMannheim: is an obscure concept. Rationality/BlackVsMannheim: here we have the same problematic reference to the "own intelligence" as in Ginsberg. Rationality/Reason/Reasonableness/Black: thousands of authors have suggested ratings for this. This is reminiscent of the dictum of Peirce: "High priori" way/Terminology/Peirce: here you are invited to see things as self-evident that would precisely need a lot of argumentative support. III 117 Humbug/Black: E.g. Mary McCarthy about the writer Lillian Hellman: "Every word she writes is a lie, including the words"and" and "the". BlackVsMcCarthy: with that, Mary McCarty did not lie, because: III 118 she meant it, because she used the words that she wanted to use. III 128 E.g. Veblen/Theory of the gentlefolk: MenckenVsVeblen: Gibberish, humbug, would fit on a postage stamp, no need to fill a whole book with it. III 73 Science/T. H. Huxley: is nothing but a common sense which is more trained and better organized. Like an old veteran differs from a young recruit. III 74 The weapons are just sharper. BlackVsHuxley: that was plausible for the biology of his time. Today, it seems exaggerated, e.g. you cannot say that driving is a "more trained" manner of walking. |
Black I Max Black "Meaning and Intention: An Examination of Grice’s Views", New Literary History 4, (1972-1973), pp. 257-279 In Handlung, Kommunikation, Bedeutung, G. Meggle (Hg) Frankfurt/M 1979 Black II M. Black The Labyrinth of Language, New York/London 1978 German Edition: Sprache. Eine Einführung in die Linguistik München 1973 Black III M. Black The Prevalence of Humbug Ithaca/London 1983 Black IV Max Black "The Semantic Definition of Truth", Analysis 8 (1948) pp. 49-63 In Truth and Meaning, Paul Horwich Aldershot 1994 |
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