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Lingua Universalis vs. Calculus Ratiocinator: - An Ultimate Presupposition of Twentieth-Century Philosophy (Hardcover, 1996 ed.)
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Lingua Universalis vs. Calculus Ratiocinator: - An Ultimate Presupposition of Twentieth-Century Philosophy (Hardcover, 1996 ed.)
Series: Jaakko Hintikka Selected Papers, 2
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R. G. Collingwood saw one of the main tasks of philosophers and of
historians of human thought in uncovering what he called the
ultimate presuppositions of different thinkers, of different
philosophical movements and of entire eras of intellectual history.
He also noted that such ultimate presuppositions usually remain
tacit at first, and are discovered only by subsequent reflection.
Collingwood would have been delighted by the contrast that
constitutes the overall theme of the essays collected in this
volume. Not only has this dichotomy ofviews been one ofthe
mostcrucial watersheds in the entire twentieth-century
philosophical thought. Not only has it remained largely implicit in
the writings of the philosophers for whom it mattered most. It is a
truly Collingwoodian presupposition also in that it is not apremise
assumed by different thinkers in their argumentation. It is the
presupposition of a question, an assumption to the effect that a
certain general question can be raised and answered. Its role is
not belied by the fact that several philosophers who answered it
one way or the other seem to be largely unaware that the other
answer also makes sense - if it does. This Collingwoodian question
can be formulated in a first rough approximation by asking whether
language - our actual working language, Tarski's
"colloquiallanguage" - is universal in the sense of being
inescapable. This formulation needs all sorts of explanations,
however.
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