Ockham was the first to carry out a complete process of grammaticalization of mental language carefully outlining distinct specific rules for the written, spoken and mental language. From a formal point of view Ockham’s program appears to many contemporary scholars as incomplete and inadequate, particularly when he attempts to eliminate equivocity and synonymy in mental language. But, on the ground of the Augustinian epistemology, the Franciscan logician seems to be stating that mental language is not devoid of ambiguities because it is a perfect language, even if it is a language devoid of the unclearness due to the will to deceive, as it is the expression of the inner Self.
Ockham and oratio mentalis
BOTTIN, FRANCESCO
2010
Abstract
Ockham was the first to carry out a complete process of grammaticalization of mental language carefully outlining distinct specific rules for the written, spoken and mental language. From a formal point of view Ockham’s program appears to many contemporary scholars as incomplete and inadequate, particularly when he attempts to eliminate equivocity and synonymy in mental language. But, on the ground of the Augustinian epistemology, the Franciscan logician seems to be stating that mental language is not devoid of ambiguities because it is a perfect language, even if it is a language devoid of the unclearness due to the will to deceive, as it is the expression of the inner Self.Pubblicazioni consigliate
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