Autor: Lonergan, Bernard J.F.

Buch: Topics in Education

Titel: Topics in Education

Stichwort: Bedingungssatz und das Unbedingte; Grund - Syllogismus

Kurzinhalt: Ableitung des modus ponens (wenn A -> dann B) aus dem virtuell Unbedingten; the major premise -> the link between the conditioned and the conditions; : ... we know that there are no further relevant questions

Textausschnitt: 24/7 There is also the virtually unconditioned, and every human judgment in this life depends, not on the vision of God, but upon the attainment of a virtually unconditioned. A virtually unconditioned is a conditioned whose conditions are fulfilled. Its formal expression is the syllogism. Where A and B stand for one or more propositions, the form is
If A, then B.
But A.
Therefore B.
The major premise is a link between the conditioned and its conditions; the minor expresses the fulfilment of the conditions; the conclusion presents the conditioned as virtually unconditioned. It is a conditioned whose conditions are fulfilled. (148; Fs) (notabene)
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25/7 On that analysis, then, syllogism is not, as Kant and sceptics generally conceive syllogism, the occasion for an infinite regress: () In general, the major premise must express explicitly the link between the conditioned and the conditions: if the series of conditions, then the conditioned. The link is grasped when one grasps that one's insight is invulnerable, that there are no further relevant questions. If A, then B. A link, a nexus between conditions and conditioned, is, in a general case, what is grasped in some insight as a possibility or a necessity. Is that connection correct? We know it is correct when we know that there are no further relevant questions. An insight is corrected insofar as one asks further questions and sees that one needs a further insight that qualifies or corrects, fills out or complements in some fashion, the insight one previously had. When one sees that there are no further relevant questions, one is sure of the link. (148; Fs)