Contexts of Understanding
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 1980
VIII, 109 pages
978-90-272-8108-1 (ISBN)
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This essay deals with the difficulty of understanding understanding, taking the understanding of natural language fragments as a paradigm.
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Herman Parret
Contexts of Understanding
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Content
- CONTEXTS OF UNDERSTANDING
- Editorial page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- PREFACE
- Table of contents
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 1.1 The difficulty of understanding understanding
- 1.2 Understanding versus explanation, interpretation and translation
- 1.3 Aspects of a psycho-pragmatic theory of understanding
- 2. SIGNIFICANCE AND UNDERSTANDING
- 2.1 Acceptance
- 2.2 What we understand when understanding
- 2.3 How we understand when understanding
- 2.4 Presentification and de s crib ability
- 3. PERSPECTIVAL UNDERSTANDING
- 3.1 PROLEGOMENA
- 3.1.1. The heuristic orientation of the theory of language
- 3.1.2 The pragmatic orientation of the theory of understanding
- 3.1.3. The epistemological orientation of the theory of understanding
- 3.2 FREGEAN INTERLUDE
- 3.3 f(p* . . . )
- 3.3..1, The paratactic analysis of {sense, force}
- 3.3.2, f is neither a mode nor an attitude but rather a mood
- 3.3.3. f is not a representation but an act-indicator
- 3.4. p[(f(p* . . . )]
- 3.4.1. The reductionistic analysis of the 'community of significance'
- 3.4.2. The function of the n-operator
- 4. CONTEXTUALISM AND TRANSCENDENTALISM IN THE THEORY OF UNDERSTANDING
- 4.1. CONTEXTUALISM
- 4.1.1. Types of contexts
- CO-TEXT
- INTRINSIC CONTEXT
- EXTRINSIC CONTEXT
- C(p)
- B(p)
- C(f)
- B(f)
- B(p)
- C(p)
- 4.2. TRANSCENDENTALISM
- 4.2.1. Psycho-pragmatic transcendentalia
- 4.2.2. The Parsimony Principle
- FOOTNOTES
- REFERENCES
