 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - Canada - 1977 - 300 pages
...WITTGENSTEIN, PHILOSOPHICAL INvESTIGATIONS I para. 81 (3d ed. GEM Anscombe trans. 1958) ; id. at para. 206 ("The common behaviour of mankind is the system of...means of which we interpret an unknown language.") ; id. at para. 559 ("The function must come out in operating with the word."). separation of powers... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - Canada - 1977 - 300 pages
...WITTGENSTEIN, PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS I para. 81 (3d ed. GEM Anscombe trans. 1958) ; id. at para. 206 ("The common behaviour of mankind is the system of...means of which we interpret an unknown language.") ; id. at para. 559 ("The function must come out in operating with the word."). HARVARD LAW REVIEW separation... | |
 | Oswald Hanfling - Philosophy - 1989 - 218 pages
...would be able to draw on universal values; we could appeal to that 'common behaviour of mankind [which] is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language' (PI 206, previously quoted p. 135). We saw in Chapter 6 that there were limits of Wittgenstein's pluralism.... | |
 | Philip Michael Dwyer - Philosophy - 1990 - 242 pages
...person reacts in one way and another in another to the order and the training? Which one is right? Suppose you came as an explorer into an unknown country...by means of which we interpret an unknown language. Connecting the last part of 206 to the first, we can say that our common behaviour is the system of... | |
 | Roy Harris - Filosofía del lenguaje - 1990 - 156 pages
...recognise that he had done the right thing in the trial? Wittgenstein himself provides us with an answer: 'The common behaviour of mankind is the system of...means of which we interpret an unknown language.' (PU:206) Let us, then, grant that in some such fashion, by means of pointing and dumb show, the builder... | |
 | Jaakko Hintikka - Philosophy - 1991 - 350 pages
...person reacts in one way and another in another to the order and the training? Which one is right? Suppose you came as an explorer into an unknown country...them, rebelled against them, and so on? The common behavior of mankind [Die gemeinsame menschliche Handlungsweise] is the system of reference [das Bezugssystem]... | |
 | Gisli Palsson - Social Science - 1994 - 280 pages
...in definitions'. The 'language' they use is, of course, the same as that of Vespucci and the native: 'The common behaviour of mankind is the system of...by means of which we interpret an unknown language' (Wittgenstein, cited in Harris 1988: 108). In a similar vein, Ingold, Sperber and Wikan stress our... | |
 | Newton Garver - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 344 pages
...case of the explorer shows how understanding aliens presupposes common behavior, or a form of life: Suppose you came as an explorer into an unknown country...them, rebelled against them, and so on? The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.... | |
 | William R. O'Neill - Philosophy - 1994 - 188 pages
...conversely, is to not imagine a language. One thinks, in this respect, of Wittgenstein's remark that the "common behaviour of mankind is the system of...means of which we interpret an unknown language." 59 For, reflectively explicated, the system of reference to which Wittgenstein alludes might be taken... | |
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Suppose you came as an explorer into an unknown country with a language quite strange to you. In what circumstances would you say that the people there gave orders, understood them, obeyed them, rebelled against them, and so on? The common behaviour of... 
