On 6/2/2018 3:45 PM, Helmut Raulien wrote:
some of these dualities (e.g.: Nominalism/universalism, semantics/semiotics, linguistic turn/cognitive turn, empiricism/metaphysics) are not necessarily antinomies, but may be regarded for theses/antitheses, that may merge to syntheses, dialectically. Isnt that so?
The ones that are complementary, not contradictory, can be the basis for a synthesis. That's true of many of them. But there is no synthesis of open-mind vs closed-mind. A commonality that characterizes Frege, Russell, Carnap, Quine, and the movements of behaviorism and logical positivism is that they all blocked the way of inquiry. Each one said, in effect, I do not know how to explore the following topics. Therefore, thou shalt not ask any question or think any thought about them. I admit that I learned a lot about logic from them, but I also learned that their research guidance is toxic to creativity. I have a deadline to finish, so I won't be able to say more now. But the article "Signs, processes, and language games" summarizes the issues: http://jfsowa.com/pubs/signproc.pdf John
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