The Social Horizon of Knowledge

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Piotr Buczkowski
Rodopi, 1991 - 195 pages

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Feyerabends
39
Leszek Nowak The defence of a social system against
59
Piotr Buczkowski Remarks on the structure of social con
87
Andrzej Falkiewicz The individuals horizon and valuation
111
Friedhelm Lövenich Heiligsprechung des Imaginären
129
Tomasz Maruszewski Everyday knowledge as representation
173
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Page 14 - Giving grounds, however, justifying the evidence, comes to an end; - but the end is not certain propositions' striking us immediately as true, ie it is not a kind of seeing on our part; it is our acting, which lies at the bottom of the language-game.
Page 13 - language-game' is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, or of a form of life.
Page 21 - I am supposing that in every society the production of discourse is at once controlled, selected, organised and redistributed according to a certain number of procedures, whose role is to avert its powers and its dangers, to cope with chance events, to evade its ponderous, awesome materiality.
Page 31 - We attempt, that is, to explain the conduct of the individual in terms of the organized conduct of the social group, rather than to account for the organized conduct of the social group in terms of the conduct of the separate individuals belonging to it.
Page 158 - Der Mensch ist diese Nacht, dies leere Nichts, das alles in ihrer Einfachheit enthält, ein Reichtum unendlich vieler Vorstellungen, Bilder, deren keines ihm gerade einfällt oder die nicht als gegenwärtige sind. Dies [ist] die Nacht, das Innre der Natur, das hier existiert — reines Selbst.
Page 11 - I shall also call the whole, consisting of language and the actions into which it is woven, the "language-game.
Page 7 - The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have always known. Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Page 23 - Their central recommendation is that the activities whereby members produce and manage settings of organized everyday affairs are identical with members' procedures for making those settings "account-able.
Page 50 - What matters at this stage is the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained through the new dark ages which are already upon us.
Page 41 - We must invent a new conceptual system that suspends or clashes with the most carefully established observational results, confounds the most plausible theoretical principles and introduces perceptions that cannot form part of the existing perceptual world.

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