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Mantics and Hermeneutics
Mantics and Hermeneutics

Author(s): Wolfram Hogrebe
Subject(s): Epistemology, Semiology, Hermeneutics
Published by: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Mantics; hermeneutics; semantics; Gadamer; Frege;

Summary/Abstract: This paper shows that our epistemological career starts at any rate earlier than Robert Brandom´s theory of inferential reason suggests. So we need a theory of informal ways of getting knowledge in the tradition of Leibniz. To do justice to the intended fragile initial oscillations of primary understanding of a meaningful world we must go back to areas before hermeneutics starts and take recourse to the repertoire of mantic vocabulary

  • Issue Year: 56/2011
  • Issue No: 56
  • Page Range: 233-245
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: English