USING THE LANGUAGE OF PHILOSOPHY

 LANGUAGE OF PHILOSOPHY

A philosophical language is any created language that's constructed from initial principles. It is considered a kind of designed language. Philosophical languages were widespread in early modern times, partly motivated by the goal of revising traditional language for philosophical (scientific) functions.

Firstly, the communication seeks to higher perceive what speakers and listeners do with language in communication, and the way it's used socially. Specific interests include the topics of language learning, language creation, and speech acts. Secondly, the question of however language relates to the minds of each the speaker and also the interpreter is investigated. Of specific interest is that the grounds for productive translation of words and ideas into their equivalents in another language.


Argument

In philosophy, an argument could be a connected series of statements, as well as a minimum of one premise, supposed to demonstrate that another statement, the conclusion, is true. And also argument offers proof for a claim, or conclusion.



Premise

A premise is a statement in an argument that gives reason or support for the conclusion. There may be one or many premises in a very single argument.

Conclusion

A conclusion is a statement that is inferred (reasoned) from the argument’s premises & it indicates of what the arguer is trying to convince the reader/listener. There can be only one conclusion for an argument.

Standard Form of Argument

The standard form of an argument could be a method of presenting the argument that makes clear which statements are premises, how many premises there are, and which statements is the conclusion. In standard form, the conclusion of the argument is listed last.

Ex:  (P1) I'm leave on this week.

       (P2) I do not answer any official phone calls on my leave.

        (C) Therefore, I do not answer any official phone calls this week.


Language and convention

It is necessary to understand that language is conventional, it's also necessary to not misinterpret this fact. From the concept that language is conventional, it's simple to conclude that language is completely arbitrary. If language is completely arbitrary, then it'd appear that it really doesn't matter that words we use or how we put them together. If we wish to communicate with others, we must follow the system of conventions that others use.


Speech Acts

In the philosophy of language and linguistics, speech act is something expressed by an individual that does not solely present information, however performs an action as well. Speech acts serve their function once they're said or communicated. The simplest idea of this speech acts is doing something in using words.

These are commonly taken to include acts such as apologizing, promising, ordering, answering, requesting, complaining, etc.

Conversational Acts

That is, a situation where various speakers use speech acts in order to bring about some effects in one another. We’ll call this act of using a speech act to cause a typical impact in another a conversational act.

Let's look at an example.

We can warn people about something in order to put them on guard concerning it.

Here warning is the speech act & put them on guard is a conversational act.

Conversational Rules

Conversations are often difficult social activities in need of rules to make them effective in achieving their goals. These rules have collected into four main groups.

  • Quantity :   Do not provide less information than is required.
                       Do not provide more information than is required.

  • Quality : Do not say what you believe to be false.
                    Do not say something for which you lack evidence.

  • Relevance : Make sure your contributions are relevant to the topic.

  • Manner :  Avoid obscurity of expression.
                     Avoid ambiguity.
                     Be brief.
                     Be orderly.


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Written by : Himauv Atthanayake


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