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12/06/2016
Russel :
Reffering to for example : the king of france (existing thing that you
dont have access to because it is too far) is conceptual too
Rene Descartes (Enlightenment starting modernism)
Put knowledge into a secure foundation: I am going to doubt everything.
My very doubt is an act of thinking
cogito ergo sum
I know my own mind ore securely than anything else
I could not be dreaming if I did not exist. In between me and other might
be something , but in between me and myself there is nothing => I
have full access to my own mind
Contradiction: the emotions might interfere with how you perceive your
self-knowledge.
Postmodernism denies this:
when you think about your own state of mind you use concepts
in the same way you would use them to describe the world
around you => DECENTERING
compare to Wittgenstein : The limits of my language are the
limits of my world buuut you are not in the centre of your
world
you do not have direct access to anything. Everything is mediated.
Argument : where do you get the concepts of myself from ( ex angry,
even tempered) ?? society (the word is already there: in the language
of the society you live in, governed by norms)
Focus
Jacques Derrida : everything is a text there is nothing outside of the
text
Language is a system of differences. Helps us differentiate. The
differences that we are given help us identify the objects in the world.
Language establishes a structure.( part of witttgenstein)
Wittgenstein never tells us what an object is! Language gives us a
structure but it does not give us an answer to what objects are
Take a structure : there is no way of answering what the parts of the
structure are.