Lexicon of Arguments

 Philosophical and Scientific Issues in Dispute
 
[german]


Complaints - Corrections

Table
Concepts
Versus
Sc. Camps
Theses I
Theses II

Concept/Author*  

What is wrong?
Page
Other metadata
Translation
Excerpt or content
Other

Correction: Year / Place / Page
/ /

Correction:
(max 500 charact.)

Your username*
or User-ID

Email address*

The complaint
will not be published.

 
III 41
Rorty thesis: consider the history of language and thus of the arts, sciences and the history of morality as a metaphor is to abolish the image in which consciousness or language are always better suited for purposes that God or nature have imposed. Consciousness has just happened in evolution, it is not something that the whole process aimed at.
>Consciousness, >Language evolution, >Language use, >Correspondence, >World/thinking, >Nature, >Metaphor, >Analogy.
III 44
Metaphor/Davidson/Rorty: to have a meaning means to have a place in a language game. - Metaphors do not have one by definition! Metaphors interrupt a conversation - they do not transmit any message. Metaphors cannot be paraphrased.
>Language game.
- - -
IV (b) 68
Metaphors/Davidson: have no meaning. In other words, prior to their creation they have no place in the language play. However, afterwards they have an important task.
>Metaphor/Davidson.
IV (b) 68
Metaphor/Rorty: the metaphor is an essential tool in the process of re-weaving our beliefs and desires. Without them there would be no such thing as scientific revolutions or a cultural change, but only a change in the truth values ​​of statements, which are formulated in a non-changing vocabulary. >Vocabulary.

Found an error? Use our Complaint Form. Perhaps someone forgot to close a bracket? A page number is wrong?
Help us to improve our lexicon.
However, if you are of a different opinion, as regards the validity of the argument, post your own argument beside the contested one.
The correction will be sent to the contributor of the original entry to get his opinion about.