Autor: Flanagan, Josef

Buch: Quest for Self-Knowledge

Titel: Quest for Self-Knowledge

Stichwort: Spache; Denken, Meinen, Sokrates

Kurzinhalt: Nicht die Sprache erklärt das Denken, sondern das Denken die Sprache; Meinung = Denken +Ausdruck

Textausschnitt: It is not language that explains knowing, but knowing that explains language.

() Meaning is the same as knowing, except that meaning adds to knowing the problem of expressing our knowing to an audience through different linguistic forms. Expressions of any knower's knowing may be adequate or inadequate, clear or obscure, but such expressions by themselves are not true or false. The truth or falsity of statements lies in the acts of judgments made by knowers, who then express those judgments in any language that these knowers may choose and in any appropriate combination of the words and phrases of that language.