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Description: A. Characterization of singular objects or events instead of giving a name. As opposed to names descriptions are not rigid, i.e. they may refer to different objects in different worlds. - B. Linguistic form for attributing predicates according to the perceptions of objects. See also rigidity, theory of descriptions._____________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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Richard Mervyn Hare on Descriptions - Dictionary of Arguments
II 135 Description/Action/Hare: e.g. dance: let us assume we are eating and we are trying to remember how a certain dance is danced. We decide to try to reconstruct it after eating, by trying to dance it. There are then three options: A) chaos, there are no matching memories, B) a false dance arises from incorrect reconstruction, C) the dance is properly reconstructed. >Memory. II 136 Plato: innovations always lead to chaos; there is only one correct way of doing something, nameley the one that we have learned from our teachers. Hare: the terms "dance" and "chaos" are mutually exclusive, but the result is not. "Both a chaos and a dance" can be called "either a chaos or a dance". The first and second possibility (chaos and false dance) are similar in that we cannot designate an arbitrary succession of movements as the dance (e.g. "Eightsome Reel"). II 137 Empiricism/Hare: not all distinctions are empirical distinctions, e.g. value distinctions are not empirical distinctions. >Empiricism. Hare: e.g. dance: there are different possibilities: 1. The dance is correct, when the dance was danced, which is called "Eightsome Reel": circular. 2. We must already make certain limitations, e.g. memories from childhood or a textbook. II 138 Problem: we cannot discover the rules of the dance by dancing (Henle as Hare). There are two demands at once: A) that the dance that is being danced is the "Eightsome Reel" and B) that it is danced correctly. (This must be possible, like bluffing at poker). >Rules._____________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. |
Hare I Richard Mervyn Hare The Language of Morals Oxford 1991 Hare II Richard M. Hare Philosophical discoveries", in: Mind, LXIX, 1960 In Linguistik und Philosophie, G. Grewendorf/G. Meggle, Frankfurt/M. 1974/1995 |