PHIL384 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Men..., Beforu (Album), Complex Differential Form
16 Mar 2016
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Wrote many leters but hardly published anything. Developed his theory between 1686 and 1740 and changed them. Noion of ideal language17th c. thinkers believed in two kinds of languagemental languagecommon to all mennaturalsimply developedand spoken languagenot commonconvenionalmater of choicemental language was developed prior and spoken language is signiicant in relaion to mental language. Ontology: the science of what is and epistemology: the theory of knowledgego hand in hand. Structure of thought is similar to structure of reality. Believes in god as the supreme creator. If we think clearly enough we will ind out about the worldpure reason * so don"t need god! Spoken words could help or hinder thinking processes. Spoken words can be used carelesslylead to obscurity. Nominal deiniionshow a word is used without knowing what the thing deined by the word is. Spoken words can be transparent to reveal the world.
