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| Logos: the greek expression logos can refer to both the speech and its content, or generally reason. In the course of the history of philosophy, the meaning of logos changed from "explanation" to "definition" or overall context. See also language, definition, reason, universe._____________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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Plato on Logos - Dictionary of Arguments
Gadamer I 416 Logos/Plato/Gadamer: [The logos is the] use of words, that is, (...) speech with [its] ability to be true and false (...) The name, the word, seems to be true or false inasmuch as it is used true or false, that is, it is attributed to being right or wrong. Such attribution, however, is no longer that of the word, but is already a logos and can find its appropriate expression in such a logos. For example, to call someone "Socrates" assumes that this person is called Socrates. The attribution that is logos is thus much more than a mere correspondence of words and things - as it would ultimately correspond to the eleatic theory of being and is presupposed in the theory of representation. Precisely because the truth inherent in logos is not that of mere perception, (noein) and is not merely allowing being to appear, but always placing being in a respect, acknowledging and awarding it something, it is not the word (onoma), but the logos the bearer of truth (and of course of untruth). From this it follows then with necessity that this structure of relationships, into which the logos divides up things and interprets them with it, is secondary to what has been said and thus to the fact that it is bound by language. >Language/Plato, >Language and thought/Plato. Word/Number/Sign/Plato/Gadamer: one understands that not the word, but the number is the actual paradigm of the noetic, the number, whose naming is obviously pure convention and whose "precision" consists precisely in the fact that every number is defined by its position in the series, thus is a pure structure of intelligibility, an ens rationis, not in the weakening sense of its being, but in the sense of its perfect rationality. This is the actual result to which the "Cratylos" refers, and this result has a highly momentous consequence that in truth influences all further thinking about language. Signs/Plato: If the area of the logos represents the area of the noetic in the multiplicity of its assignments, then the word, just like the number, becomes a mere sign of a well-defined and thus pre-conscious being. Thus, in principle, the question is reversed. Now, the question is no longer asked from the point of view of the being and mediation of the word, but from the mediation of the word towards what and how it mediates something, namely towards the person who uses it. The essence of the sign is that it has its being in its function of use, and that in such a way that its suitability Gadamer I 417 exists alone in pointing to something. It must therefore stand out in its function from the environment in which it is to be found and taken as a sign, in order to abolish its own thing and to dissolve (disappear) in its meaning. It is the abstraction of reference itself. >Sign/Plato., cf. >Reference._____________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. |
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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