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Thinking: Thinking is a cognitive process that involves mental activities such as reasoning, problem solving, decision making, imagination and conceptualization. These operations enable individuals to process information, make sense of their experiences and interact with the world around them._____________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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H.N. Castaneda on Thinking - Dictionary of Arguments
Frank I 171ff Pure Thought/Pure Thinking/Castaneda/Pape: there is no pure self-conscious thinking, I always think of myself as having a certain localizable experience content as identical. (> Hume: "I" is applicable only on perceptions). >Self-consciousness, >Self-knowledge, >Self-identification, >Self, >I, Ego, Self, >I, Ego, Self/Hume, >Sensualism. Hector-Neri Castaneda(1966b): "He": A Study on the Logic of Self-consciousness, in : Ratio 8 (Oxford 1966), 130-157 I 385f Thinking/World/Castaneda: if the thought content is purely universal and abstract thinking, how can we get in touch with something special? - Chisholm allowed not only that singular terms are only composed of expressions that denote pure universals, he goes so far as to eliminate singular terms entirely analytically, by free variables with the performative role to express self-ascription. >Self-attribution, >Attribution, >Attribution/Chisholm, >Person/Chisholm, >Singular terms._____________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. |
Cast I H.-N. Castaneda Phenomeno-Logic of the I: Essays on Self-Consciousness Bloomington 1999 Fra I M. Frank (Hrsg.) Analytische Theorien des Selbstbewusstseins Frankfurt 1994 |