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| Language, philosophy: language is a set of phonetic or written coded forms fixed at a time for the exchange of information or distinctions within a community whose members are able to recognize and interpret these forms as signs or symbols. In a wider sense, language is also a sign system, which can be processed by machines. See also communication, language rules, meaning, meaning change, information, signs, symbols, words, sentences, syntax, semantics, grammar, pragmatics, translation, interpretation, radical interpretation, indeterminacy._____________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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Renaissance on Language - Dictionary of Arguments
Gadamer I 440 Language/Renaissance/Gadamer: (...) [it] retains (...) something artificial and adverse to the essence of language, if the contingency of natural concept formation is measured against the true order of essence and understood as merely accidental.(Cf. >Language/Ancient Philosophy). Such contingency is in fact brought about by the necessary and legitimate range of variation in which the human mind is able to articulate the essential order of things. That the Latin Middle Ages, despite the biblical significance of the human confusion of language on this side, did not really pursue the problem of language may be explained above all by the self-evident dominance of scholarly Latin, as well as by the continued influence of the Greek Logos doctrine. It was not until the Renaissance, when the layman became important and the national languages penetrated into scholarly education, that fruitful thought was given to their relationship to the inner word or "natural" vocabulary. Gadamer: One must be careful, however, not to immediately assume the question of modern philosophy of language and its instrumental concept of language. Cf. >Word of God/Nicholas of Cusa, >Language/Medieval Philosophy, >Language/Nominalism,._____________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. |
Renaissance 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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