primitive' meant to say here? Presumably that this sort of behaviour is pre-linguistic: that a languagegame is based on it, that it is the prototype of a way of thinking and not the result of thought. Science and an African Logic - Page 264by Helen Verran - 2001 - 277 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| John V. Canfield - Criterion (Theory of knowledge) - 1981 - 246 pages
...[sec. 540] But what is the word "primitive" meant to say here? Presumably that this sort of behavior is prelinguistic: that a language game is based on...prototype of a way of thinking and not the result of thought. [sec. 541] I will try to elucidate part of the content of these passages by developing the... | |
| Susan L. Hurley - Decision making - 1989 - 478 pages
...behaviour. But what is the word "primitive" meant to say here? Presumably that this sort of behaviour is prelinguistic: that a language game is based on...prototype of a way of thinking and not the result of thought. 24. See Ellsberg, "Risk, Ambiguity, and the Savage Axioms"; Roberts, "Risk, Ambiguity, and... | |
| Michael J. Perry - Political Science - 1990 - 336 pages
...'primitive' meant to say here? Presumably that this sort of behaviour is prelinguistic: that a language-game is based on it, that it is the prototype of a way of thinking and not the result of thought". Rorty writes as if the only two alternatives are to hold that there is extra-linguistic intuition... | |
| Philip Michael Dwyer - Philosophy - 1990 - 242 pages
...automaton (PI, p. 178). To say that it is a "primitive" reaction to take a person to be a person means "that it is the proto-type of a way of thinking and not the result of thought" (Z, 541). An opinion, for example about the rings of Saturn, is the result of thought and... | |
| Christina E. Erneling - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 274 pages
..."primitive" meant to say here? Presumably that this sort of behavior is pre-linguistic: that a languagegame is based on it, that it is the prototype of a way of thinking and not the result of thought. 57 Our language-game is an extension of primitive behavior." Similar remarks are made in connection... | |
| Norman Malcolm - Literary Collections - 1995 - 238 pages
...asks himself what the word 'primitive' means here, and replies: 'Surely that this sort of behaviour is pre-linguistic. that a language game is based on...a way of thinking and not the result of thinking' (2541). He further says: Being sure that someone is in pain, doubting whether he is, and so on, are... | |
| Michael P. T. Leahy - Law - 1996 - 288 pages
...meant to say here? Presumably that this sort of behaviour is pre- linguistic, that a language-game is based on it, that it is the prototype of a way of thinking and not the result of thought, (original emphasis) The final lines are the significant ones. Language-users may interrupt,... | |
| William H. Brenner - Philosophy - 1999 - 204 pages
...behaviot.f But what is the word "ptimitive" meant to say here? Presumably that this sort of behavior is pre-linguistic: that a language game is based on...prototype of a way of thinking and not the result of thought. (Z, sees. 540-541.) "Certain kinds of prelinguistic behavior are foundational": in child psychology... | |
| Lois Holzman, John R. Morss - Philosophy - 2000 - 238 pages
...primitive here, Wittgenstein means that "... this sort of behavior is prelinguistic: that a language-game is based on it, that it is the prototype of a way of thinking and not the result of thought" (1981, no. 541). Such living, bodily responses are thus the primitive beginnings from which... | |
| Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka - Philosophy - 2000 - 516 pages
...puts it as follows: Presumably that this sort of behaviour is pre-linguistic: that a language-game is based on it, that it is the prototype of a way of thinking and not the result of thought (Z, ยง 541 ). 26 The whole course of his discussion of the issue of private experience like... | |
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