Monday, January 24, 2011

Nothing But Water Glorietta For Men

Q 1 / 2: Whorf, Magee, Black and Watzlawick: Language and Reality

The following topics were discussed in recent meetings:

  • 08./20.12.10 - Benjamin Lee Whorf: Grammar influenced our thinking
  • 01.10.2011 - Language - The window to reality? Max Black: There is no simple causal relationship between grammar and thought.
  • 01/12/2011 - Bryan Magee: Language does not capture all reality (but also the direct experience)
  • 17/01/2011 - Modern theories of truth: Adäquations-/Korrespondenztheorie, coherence and consensus theory and its argumentative weaknesses (methodology: impromptu speech)
  • 24/01/2011 - Paul Watzlawick: How Real Is Real? Constructivism in philosophy


  • 01/26/2011 - Plato, Descartes, Watzlawick, and the matrix

The topics revolve around the issues:

  • language and truth
  • language and Think
  • language and reality

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