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Action, Word and Afterthought

Action, Word and Afterthought

ØFsti Audun

Paperback

Philosophy

ISBN10: 3659334316
ISBN13: 9783659334313
Publisher: Lap Lambert Academic Pub
Published: Mar 30 2015
Pages: 56
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.13 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Part A of this essay deals with the logic of the humanities. These disciplines are, unlike the natural sciences, 'meta'-intentional. Interpretations, rule-following, rationality and knowledge, primarily attributed to scientists/ the members of the community of investigators, must in social science also be acknowledged at the level of the objects investigated. In these sciences one has to do with sentences that describe intentional relations-to-world; sentences of the form 'indirect speech', belief-sentences etc. An objective of A is to direct attention to Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy - in particular his Investigations - as a historically important but insufficiently estimated contribution to clarification of the logical form of the social sciences. It also includes comments against methodic solipsism, an implicit and wide-spread premise in philosophy of science generally. Part B has the character of first philosophy, focussing on Kant and Wittgenstein and the distinction between (persons') intentions and (words') intensions. As indicative mottos for this part have been chosen: In the beginning was the Word (John 1.1) and In the beginning was the Act (Goethe, Faust).

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