Search results for "Ineffability"
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La inefabilidad en el lenguaje natural
2016
English Title: "The Ineffability of Natural Language" Resumen: Los casos de variacion en las condiciones de satisfaccion de enunciados sin deicticos, junto con la asuncion de un principio de proposicionalidad, han llevado a filosofos como Carston a defender la idea de que nuestros pensamientos son inefables, esto es, no codificables en lenguaje natural. En contra de este enfoque argumentare (i) que esta teoria no se aplica al pensamiento consciente, (ii) que, contra el argumento de la desambiguacion, el principio de proposicionalidad no es obligatorio y (iii) que podemos explicar tanto los casos exitosos de comunicacion como aquellos en los que es necesario que el hablante precise que queri…
Commentary on Jakab's “Ineffability of Qualia”
2000
Zoltan Jakab has presented an interesting conceptual analysis of the ineffability of qualia in a functionalist and classical cognitivist framework. But he does not want to commit himself to a certain metaphysical thesis on the ontology of consciousness or qualia. We believe that his strategy has yielded a number of highly relevant and interesting insights, but still suffers from some minor inconsistencies and a certain lack of phenomenological and empirical plausibility. This may be due to some background assumptions relating to the theory of mental representation employed. Jakab's starting assumption is that there is no linguistic description of a given experience such that understanding t…
Wittgenstein’s “Inner and Outer”: Overcoming Epistemic Asymmetry
2013
In this article, I identify three ways in which Wittgenstein opposed an idea of epistemic asymmetry between the first person and the secondor-third person. Examining the questions of 1) absence of doubt about my own experience and uncertainty about the experiences of others, 2) ineffability of subjective experience and 3) immediacy of my knowledge of my own experience contrasted with my merely inferential knowledge about the experiences of others, I see Wittgenstein’s remarks about “inner and outer” as a many-faceted denial of the claim that people’s minds are in some deep way unknowable to others. These considerations also serve to clarify Wittgenstein’s relation to behaviorism. 1. Wittgen…