Duality, Force, Language-games and Our Form of Life
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Christian Martin
Abstract
This article presents a line of thought leading from considerations on how the difference between logical affirmation and negation is linguistically manifest via a critique of the ‘force-content-distinction’ drawn by Frege and reflection on how that distinction is involved in confusions about rule following to a conception of ‘thinking-and-speaking’ as, essentially, an activity of living beings. It thus seeks to motivate a logico-linguistic understanding of ‘form of life’, exhibiting it as already involved in making distinctions as ‘simple’ as that between ‘p’ and ‘not p’.
Abstract
This article presents a line of thought leading from considerations on how the difference between logical affirmation and negation is linguistically manifest via a critique of the ‘force-content-distinction’ drawn by Frege and reflection on how that distinction is involved in confusions about rule following to a conception of ‘thinking-and-speaking’ as, essentially, an activity of living beings. It thus seeks to motivate a logico-linguistic understanding of ‘form of life’, exhibiting it as already involved in making distinctions as ‘simple’ as that between ‘p’ and ‘not p’.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Table of Contents V
- List of Abbreviations VII
- Introduction: The Form of Our Life with Language 1
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Paths to Form(s) of Life
- The Rule of the Game (The Moment of Truth) 11
- Lebensformen: Living Logic 59
- Human Life and Self-consciousness. The Idea of ‘Our’ Form of Life in Hegel and Wittgenstein 93
- Duality, Force, Language-games and Our Form of Life 113
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Form(s) of Life: the Very Idea
- Our Life with Truth 155
- Language-games, Lebensform, and the Ancient City 173
- Language-games and Forms of Life in Mathematics 193
- The Representation of Language 219
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Form(s) of Life after Wittgenstein
- Wittgenstein and the Difficulty of What Normally Goes Without Saying 253
- Wittgenstein. Ordinary Language as Lifeform 277
- Hostage to a Stranger 305
- Biographical Notes 331
- Index 333
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Table of Contents V
- List of Abbreviations VII
- Introduction: The Form of Our Life with Language 1
-
Paths to Form(s) of Life
- The Rule of the Game (The Moment of Truth) 11
- Lebensformen: Living Logic 59
- Human Life and Self-consciousness. The Idea of ‘Our’ Form of Life in Hegel and Wittgenstein 93
- Duality, Force, Language-games and Our Form of Life 113
-
Form(s) of Life: the Very Idea
- Our Life with Truth 155
- Language-games, Lebensform, and the Ancient City 173
- Language-games and Forms of Life in Mathematics 193
- The Representation of Language 219
-
Form(s) of Life after Wittgenstein
- Wittgenstein and the Difficulty of What Normally Goes Without Saying 253
- Wittgenstein. Ordinary Language as Lifeform 277
- Hostage to a Stranger 305
- Biographical Notes 331
- Index 333
