@misc{Lexicon of Arguments, title = {Quotation from: Lexicon of Arguments – Concepts - Ed. Martin Schulz, 29 Mar 2024}, author = {Anscombe,G. E. M.}, subject = {Skepticism}, note = {Frank I 79 I/Descartes/Anscombe: pro: the conception of "I" cannot be a "self" and it must guarantee that the speaker is necessarily present. This shows how powerful the approach of Descartes is. The conception is the "thinking of thoughts". >I, >cogito, >R. Descartes. I/Anscombe: Error immunity: 1. The speaker must exist, 2. The referent must exist, 3. The referent exists as the one who is meant. >Meaning/Intending, >Reference. I/Body/AnscomeVsDescartes: E.g. I am tied up in a large water tank and cannot move. I think, "I will not let this happen to me again." Thus it becomes clear that a body cannot be a referent of "I", but a Cartesian res cogitans. >Body, >res cogitans. Problem: the Cartesian ego fulfills the criteria of the guaranteed reference,... Frank I 80 ...but does not solve the problem of Locke: who guarantees that the referential object is in different "I" thoughts the same? >I, Ego, Self, >Person/Locke. AnscombeVsDescartes: he cannot even be sure that "I" does not refer to several thinkers at the same time! I/Skepticism/Anscombe: Solution: "I" refers to nothing! So it is error immune. This follows from the failure of logic in determining the meaning and the failure of Descartes' in determining the referent. Question: Why did not someone come up with this solution earlier? Because of the "grammatical illusion of a subject". The questions about meaning and referent of the "I" are meaningless, however! >Meaning, >Grammar.}, note = { Anscombe I G.E. M. Anscombe "The First Person", in: G. E. M. Anscombe The Collected Philosophical Papers, Vol. II: "Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Mind", Oxford 1981, pp. 21-36 In Analytische Theorien des Selbstbewusstseins, Manfred Frank, Frankfurt/M. 1994 Fra I M. Frank (Hrsg.) Analytische Theorien des Selbstbewusstseins Frankfurt 1994 }, file = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=326057} url = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=326057} }