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REFORMAREA LIMBAJULUI DE PE POZIŢIILE NEOPRAGMATISMULUI, HOLISMULUI ŞI RELATIVISMULUI
Reforming the Language – Neo-pragmatism, Holism and Relativism

Author(s): Andreea Elena Mirica
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Editura Academiei Române
Keywords: philosophy of language; holism; relativism; Pragmatism; Quine; Rorty; Davidson

Summary/Abstract: The Theory and nature of language developed by Richard Rorty is a continuation of the concept of relativist theories of Ludwig Wittgenstein and the American pragmatist. Although some linguistic and conceptual schemes in other areas (e.g. for morality) are so deeply rooted in the consciousness of men that seem to be necessary, immutable, they are in fact contingent. Frameworks fundamental conceptual basis of language patterns are not absolute, therefore they should not be considered as Noam Chomsky discovered, but created. What the pragmatical philosophy sustains is that life and human knowledge can have a positive, desirable even if we accept the idea that there is a transcendental reality in which we relate, to get closer to whenever we discover something new. There is an absolute finality of our intellectual effort, there is a transcendental truth that always need to compare our ideas. Belief in a transcendental truth that seemed to be essential may be removed from the speech pro-Sofica without it to suffer, even more, by removing these false problems opens to us the door to philosophical discourses more successful than previous.

  • Issue Year: X/2012
  • Issue No: 10
  • Page Range: 291-298
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Romanian