CLASS NOTES: 10/12/11 .edu
CLASS NOTES: 10/12/11
READING: ARTICULATING REASONS; BRANDOM (2-22) PTS. 1-9
Understanding the “ing” before the “ed”
1. Acts of Asserting
2. Things Asserted
Sellars
1. Meaning of thoughts
2. Meaning of Words
• The Realm of Ideas is a realm of copies
• The mind is supposed to mirror reality
• Stems from Plato’s mirroring the world of forms
Tangent FYI
Romanticism (19th Century) –movement from realism towards romanticism
Ex.) Picture of the Sea (exaggerated and sublime) used to inspire/evoke emotion (Expressionist Ideals)
Brandom
• Expressive Knowledge production in Science
o Knowledge claims expressive of making explicit your position in a game of giving and asking for reasons
• Knowledge is not a mirror but a lamp that goes out searching. It is productive
• Emphasis on activity of knowing not just passive reflection
Take away Message- Knowing is not mere reflection, but is an active doing. Taking a position in a game of giving and asking for reasons.
Top- Down
o We start with good and bad inference between propositions
o Understand sentence meaning first, word meaning second.
o 2+2=4 2sq=4
Holism (Anatomism)/ Atomism
Meanings concepts can be understood only in relation to the relations that they bare to other propositions
Rationalism= giving reasons
Focus on reasoning and logic is the difference between the rationalist and the Empiricist
One standard way to think of logic is assigning special epistemic access to a kind of truth.
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