Linguistic Meaning and Intentionality: The Relationship of the a Priori of Language and the a Priori of Consciousness in Light of a Transcendental Semiotic or a Linguistic Pragmatic

Abstract

The Impetus for the Problem’s Position: The Renewal of the Rivalry Between the A Priori of Consciousness and the A Priori of Language through the “Intentional Semantic.”

Translated by Irmgard B. Scherer.

Footnotes

1/Cf. H. P. Grice, “Meaning,” The Philosophical Review 66 (1957), pp. 377–88, cf. “Utterer’s Meaning, Sentence-Meaning and Word-Meaning,” in Foundations of Language 4 (1968); cf “Utterer’s Meaning and Intentions,” The Philosophical Review, 78 (1969), pp. 147–177.

2/D. Lewis, Convention (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1969).

3/S. Schiffer, Meaning (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1972).

4/J. Bennett, Linguistic Behaviour (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976).

5/G. Meggle, Grundbegriffe der Kommunikation (Berlin/New York: W. de Gruyter, 1981).

6/W. Vossenkuhl, Anatomie des Sprachgebrauchs (Stuttgart: Klett/Cotta, 7982).

7/Cf. K.-0. Apel, “Intentions, Conventions, and Reference to Things: Dimensions of Understanding Meaning in Hermeneutics and in Analytic Philosophy of Language,” in Meaning And Understanding edited by H. Parrett and J. Bouveresse (Berlin/New York: W. de Gruyter, 1981), pp. 79111; Id., “Lässt sich ethische Vernunft von strategischer Zweckrationalität unterscheiden? Zum Problem der Rationalitat sozialer Kommunikation und Interaktion,” in Archivio di Filosofia, LI (1983), PP. 375-434; id., “Linguistic Meaning and Intentionality. The Compatibility of the ‘Linguistic Turn’ and the ’Pragmatic Turn’ of Meaning-Theory within the framework of a Transcendental Semiotics,” in Sémiotique et Pragmatique(in progress), edited by G. Deledalle.

8/J. R. Searle, Intentionality/ An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind (Cambridge University Press, 1983).

9/Cf. essays of J. Habermas and K.-0. Apel in Sprachpragmatik und Philosppie K.-0. Apel, Publisher (Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp, 1976).

10/Cf. J. Searle, Speech Acts (Cambridge University Press, 1969), p. 43 ff..

11/Cf. K. Lorenz, Die Rückseite des Spiegels, Versuch einer Naturgeschichte der menschlichen Erkenntnis (Munchen/Zurich: R. Piper, 1973).

12/L. Wittgenstein, Vermischte Bemerkungen (Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp, 1977), p. 27.

13/Cf. E. Stenius, Wittgenstein’s ‘Tractatus’ (Oxford: Blackwell, 1964).

14/Cf. K. R. Popper, Logic Of Scientific Discovery (London: Hutchinson, 1959), p. 95ff and p. 105.

15/On Peirce cf. K.-0. Apel, Charles Peirce: From Pragmatism To Pragmaticism (Amherst: University Of Massachusetts Press, 1981), also id. “C. S. Peirce and the Post-Tarskian Problem of an adequate Explication of the Meaning of Truth: Towards a Transcendental-Pragmatic Theory of Truth,” in The Relevance Of Charles Peirce edited by E. Freeman (LaSalle, Ill.: The Hegeler Institute, 1983), pp. 189–223; id “Linguistic Meaning and Intentionality ₌ “ op. cit footnote 7; id. ”Das Problem der phenomenologisehen Evidenz im Lichte einer transzendentalen Semiotik,“ in Die Krise der Phenomenologie und die Pragmatik des Wissenschaftsfortschritts published by M. Benedikt and R. Burger (Wien: Osterreichische Staatsdanckerie, 1986).

16/Cf. J. Royce, The Problem of Christianity (New York, 1913), Vol. II, p. 146ff.

17/Cf. K.-0. Apel, Transformation der Philosophie (Frankfurt a. M., 1973), Vol. II, p. 96ff. (Engl. trans. Towards A Transformation Of Philsophy, London: Routledge, 1980); Understanding and Explanation: A Transcendental-Pragmatic Perspective (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1984).

18/Cf. J. L. Austin, How do to Things with Words (Oxford University Press, 1962); also cf. K.-0. Apel, “Austin und die Sprachphilosophie der Gegenwart,” in Überlieferung und Aufgabe published by H. Nagl-Docekal, Festschrift f. E. Heintel (Wien, 1982), Vol. I, pp. 183-96; cf. “Die Logos-Auszeichnung der menschlichen Sprache. Die philosophische Relevanz der Sprechakttheorie,” in Sprach interdisziplinär, published by H.-G. Bosshardt (Berlin/New York: W. de Gruyter, 1986) pp. 45–87.

19/Cf. K.-0. Apel, “Linguistic Meaning....”, see footnote 7.

20/Cf. J. Habermas, “Vorbereitende Bemerkungen zu einer Theorie der kommunikativen Kompetenz,” in Theorie der Gesellschaft oder Sozialtechnologie? J. Habermas and N. Luhmann (Frankfurt a. M., 1971), p. 101-141; cf. “Was heisst Universalpragmatik?” in Sprachpragmatik und Philosophie published by K.-0. Apel (Frankfurt a. M., 1976), pp. 174–272; also see K.-0. Apel, “Die Logosauszeichnung...,” see footnote 18.

21/Cf. L. Wittgenstein, Schriften III, Ludwig Wittgenstein und der Wiener Kreis (Frankfurt a. M., 1967), p. 243ff.

22/Cf. J. Habermas, “Was heisst Universalpragmatik?” (see footnote 20), also cf. Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns (Frankfurt a. M., 1981), Vol. 1, I, 3 and III.

23/Cf. my writings listed in footnote 18.

24/Cf. J. Habermas (1981), Vol. I, III.

25/Cf. K.-0. Apel, “Das Apriori der Kommunikationsgemeinschaft und die Grundlagen der Ethik,” in id (1973), Vol. II and id. “Sprechakttheorie und transzendentale Sprachpragmatik zur Frage ethischer Normen,” in id. (1976); pp. 10–173, also J. Habermas, Moralbewusstsein und kommunikatives Handeln (Frankfurt a. M., 1983).