Lexicon of Arguments

 

Hintikka I 43 ff
Philosophy/Wittgenstein/Hintikka: the thesis of language as a universal medium has as a consequence the idea of the universality of language. (Universal Language). Philosophical views do not enjoy the privilege of formulating in their own meta-language.
As there is no metaphysics, there is no meta logic. The expression 'to understand a sentence' is also not meta logical, but an expression like any other. (Ms 110, 189). >Cf. >Metaphysics, >Universal language.
I 44
Example: the case corresponds to that of the orthography, which also has to do with the word 'orthography'. >Self reference.
Wittgenstein's philosophical technique is to ask again and again the question: On what occasion would someone express the sentence? This presupposes that a philosophical discussion is not one of the relevant opportunities.
I 45
All metatheoretical and philosophical discourses are excluded from the study. Basic thesis of the universality of language. >Circular reasoning.
I 47
Metalanguage/metatheory/Wittgenstein/Hintikka: there can be no metatheory, not even in mathematics. There are basically no higher levels - thus you can actually apply no semantic concept of truth in mathematics. >Levels, >Description levels, >Object language.