 language" or "mind" penetrate so deeply into what we call "reality" that the very project of representing ourselves as being "mappers" of something "language-independent" is fatally compromised from the start.  Representing the Real - Page 49by Ruth Ronen - 2002 - 205 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Abner Shimony - Philosophy - 1993 - 358 pages
...of human cognition is made more explicit elsewhere, for instance, "What I am saying, then, is that elements of what we call 'language' or 'mind' penetrate...project of representing ourselves as being 'mappers' on something 'language-independent' is fatally compromised from the start" (ibid., p. 28). Putnam's... | |
 | Kirsten Hastrup - Anthropologists - 1995 - 236 pages
...some way conventional, we have to discuss its nature in a new manner. A first step is to recognize how 'elements of what we call "language" or "mind" penetrate...is fatally compromised from the very start' (Putnam 1990: 28, emphasis original). In so far as anthropology is 'like' a language, and as its theories are... | |
 | Dennis Michael Patterson - Jurisprudence - 1996 - 202 pages
...See Hilary Putnam, Realism with a Human Face 28— 29 (1990): "What I am saying, then, is that the elements of what we call 'language' or 'mind' penetrate...'language-independent' is fatally compromised from the very start. Like Relativism, but in a different way, Realism is an impossible attempt to view the world from Nowhere.... | |
 | Louis Menand - Education - 1996 - 258 pages
...between beliefs and a putatively mind-independent or "external" world.4 I agree with Hilary Putnam that Elements of what we call "language" or "mind" penetrate..."language-independent" is fatally compromised from the start. Like Relativism, Realism is an impossible attempt to view the world from Nowhere.5 Kuhn, Putnam,... | |
 | Jürgen Habermas - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 468 pages
...our practices of reaching understanding and the linguistically constituted context of our lifeworld: "Elements of what we call 'language' or 'mind' penetrate...'language-independent' is fatally compromised from the start"10 This is a quotation from Hilary Putnam with which Rorty agrees. Nonetheless, Rorty has something... | |
 | Ronald F. Duska - Philosophy - 2007 - 331 pages
...separately. First, to quote Hilary Putnam (a realist) and Richard Rorty, one of Walton's bete noirs, ...elements of what we call 'language' or 'mind' penetrate...'language-independent' is fatally compromised from the start. 12 What Putnam and Rorty are arguing, following the thinking of Wittgenstein, is that our minds... | |
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