
Contexts of Understanding
Herman Parret(Author)
John Benjamins Publishing Co
Published on 1. January 1980
Book
Paperback/Softback
109 pages
978-90-272-2509-2 (ISBN)
Description
This essay deals with the difficulty of understanding understanding, taking the understanding of natural language fragments as a paradigm.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 160 mm
Weight
200 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-2509-2 (9789027225092)
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Herman Parret
Contexts of Understanding
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Content
1. Preface; 2. 1. Introduction; 3. 1.1. The difficulty of understanding understanding; 4. 1.2. Understanding versus explanation, interpretation and translation; 5. 1.3. Aspects of a psycho-pragmatic theory of understanding; 6. 2. Significance and Understanding; 7. 2.1. Acceptance; 8. 2.2. What we understand when understanding; 9. 2.3. How we understand when understanding; 10. 2.4. Presentification and describability; 11. 3. Perspectival Understanding; 12. 3.1. Prolegomena; 13. 3.2. Fregean interlude; 14. 3.3. phi(p*...); 15. 3.4. pi[phi(p*...)]; 16. 4. Contextualism and Transcendentalism in the Theory of Understanding; 17. 4.1. Contextualism; 18. 4.2. Transcendentalism; 19. Footnotes; 20. References