Consciousness and Thought
CONSCIOUSNESS AND THOUGHT
Found in communication in the distinction between Sign-Use and Sentences
There are two types of formal analysis of communication:
Analysis of consciousness --what it expresses about the user.
This is known through analysis of the signs uses (S*); what they are, how they link, in what context.
Analysis of thought -- what it expresses about the world.
This is known through analysis of signs used specifically to express truths about objects other than themselves.
This distinction is tacit in C.S. Pierce's definition of a sign as "that which stands for something other than itself." This implies that what he means by a "sign" in inherently duplex: something in itself; and something that stands for something other than itself.
This duality can be formally recognized by the distinction between text and token: text is the sign taken as standing for something other than itself; token is the sign taken as something in itself.
Textualism: the assumption that reality is known through the text of communication. The assumption that reality is known only through text is the chief fallacy that results from not distinguishing consciousness and thought. Philosophy has not systematically taken account of the distinction, therefore, following the great logical thinkers Parmenides, Plato, Descartes, Wittgenstein and Logical Positivism (G. Bergmann), it tends toward the textualist position in metaphysics. As systematic account of what is, the name "metaphysics" itself, according to legend taken from the arrangement of Aristotle's works, commits the fallacy of textualism by subsuming reality under language. This leads to dismissal of metaphysics, since logical analysis of sentences either leads away from what they are themselves, or turns on them with the same tools their analysis has provided. Taken to its logical outcome, this leads to the mistaken view that grammar is the form of consciousness.
Necessary truths bring consciousness to itself through thought, They turn into token-tautologies, A=A. These are relegated to the highest rank of intellectual products by textualists. Man's completion lies in the logical syntax of language. To be is to be the value of a bound variable.
Mistakes in informal discourse due to the confusion.
-"you are what you think" (Are present to where you dream) Words meanthe same thing to others as they do for oneself. To criticise what someone thinks is the same as to critice the person.
Chief
Found in communication in the distinction between Sign-Use and Sentences
There are two types of formal analysis of communication:
Analysis of consciousness --what it expresses about the user.
This is known through analysis of the signs uses (S*); what they are, how they link, in what context.
Analysis of thought -- what it expresses about the world.
This is known through analysis of signs used specifically to express truths about objects other than themselves.
This distinction is tacit in C.S. Pierce's definition of a sign as "that which stands for something other than itself." This implies that what he means by a "sign" in inherently duplex: something in itself; and something that stands for something other than itself.
This duality can be formally recognized by the distinction between text and token: text is the sign taken as standing for something other than itself; token is the sign taken as something in itself.
Textualism: the assumption that reality is known through the text of communication. The assumption that reality is known only through text is the chief fallacy that results from not distinguishing consciousness and thought. Philosophy has not systematically taken account of the distinction, therefore, following the great logical thinkers Parmenides, Plato, Descartes, Wittgenstein and Logical Positivism (G. Bergmann), it tends toward the textualist position in metaphysics. As systematic account of what is, the name "metaphysics" itself, according to legend taken from the arrangement of Aristotle's works, commits the fallacy of textualism by subsuming reality under language. This leads to dismissal of metaphysics, since logical analysis of sentences either leads away from what they are themselves, or turns on them with the same tools their analysis has provided. Taken to its logical outcome, this leads to the mistaken view that grammar is the form of consciousness.
Necessary truths bring consciousness to itself through thought, They turn into token-tautologies, A=A. These are relegated to the highest rank of intellectual products by textualists. Man's completion lies in the logical syntax of language. To be is to be the value of a bound variable.
Mistakes in informal discourse due to the confusion.
-"you are what you think" (Are present to where you dream) Words meanthe same thing to others as they do for oneself. To criticise what someone thinks is the same as to critice the person.
Chief
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