Lexicon of Arguments

 

Rorty VI 188
Rorty: Brandom: thought and speech give us a perspective access to a non-perspective world. (Goes beyond >Nietzsche, >Goodman, >Dewey).
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Brandom I 474
World/Thinking/Language/Fact/Brandom: words form a separate and largely independent realm within our world.
1) nonverbal facts could be the same, even if the verbal facts about the world were different.
2) signs could be the same, even if the non-verbal facts were quite different.
Solution: our discursive practices are not so isolated from the world. - Important argument: the nonverbal facts may be the same, although our discursive practices were different, but not vice versa!
Because the practices are not things like sounds or words that could be specified independent from the objects.
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II 63
Reality/Thought/World/Brandom: the difference is expressed in our use of words such from or about. >Use.
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Martin Seel Die ZEIT April 2001
World/Brandom: paragon of the facts, regardless of whether they are detected. There was a world without concepts, but there was never a world without facts - KantVsBrandom/Seel: Vs inference from thinking to being - although we cannot think it other than conceptually, it does not need to be constituted conceptually. >Facts.