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| Question: a sentence within a communication context that requires one or more further sentences (see also answers). The question in many languages is characterized by a slightly altered word position, as opposed to the corresponding sentence, as well as an attached or pre-set symbol (question symbol). A response is not guaranteed and does not have to be done so that a question retains its form and content. See also statements, commands, sentences, speech act theory._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Robin George Collingwood on Questions - Dictionary of Arguments
Gadamer I 376 Question/Answer/Collingwood/Gadamer: [Collingwood developed] the idea of a "logic of question and answer" in a witty and apt criticism of the "realistic" Oxford School, but unfortunately did not come to a systematic execution(1). He recognized with ingenuity what was missing in the naive hermeneutics that underlie the usual philosophical criticism. CoolingwoodVsTradition: In particular the method Collingwood found in the English university system, the discussion of statements, perhaps a good exercise in ingenuity, apparently fails to recognize the historicity inherent in all understanding. Collingwood Thesis: In truth, one can understand a text only if one has understood the question to which it is an answer. But since this question can only be derived from the text, and thus the appropriateness of the answer is the methodological prerequisite for the reconstruction of the question, the criticism of this answer, which is led from somewhere, is pure mirror fencing. Prerequisite: It is like understanding works of art. Even a work of art is only understood by presupposing its adequacy. Here, too, the question to which it responds must first be won if it is to be understood - as an answer. Gadamer: It is indeed an axiom of all hermeneutics (...) >Perfection/Gadamer, >History/Collingwood; GadamerVsCollingwood: >Text/Gadamer. 1. Cf. Collingwood's autobiography, which at my suggestion was published in German translation under the title "Denken" (English: "Thinking"), p. 30ff, and the unprinted Heidelberg dissertation by Joachim Finkeldei, "Grund und Wesen des Fragens", 1954; a similar position is taken by Croce (who influenced Collingwood), who in his "Logik" (German edition p. 135ff) understands every definition as an answer to a question and therefore "historical"._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Coll I R. G. Collingwood Essays In Political Philosophy Oxford 1995 Gadamer I Hans-Georg Gadamer Wahrheit und Methode. Grundzüge einer philosophischen Hermeneutik 7. durchgesehene Auflage Tübingen 1960/2010 Gadamer II H. G. Gadamer The Relevance of the Beautiful, London 1986 German Edition: Die Aktualität des Schönen: Kunst als Spiel, Symbol und Fest Stuttgart 1977 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-27