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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