This chapter builds a semiotic logic of worldviews, responses to the world, and the aspects of a belief system: trust, vision, faithfulness, and assent. Worldviews (S,I,M) include a system of signs S, which is interpreted through practices I. The practices have frameworks (agent, distinctions, habits, goals), including the moral framework M. Worldviews rely on natural signs and responses to reality. One encounters the world through empirical practices, which give Gestalts and a way of seeking and finding objects. Language games then build on empirical practices. They constitute communication, action, symbols, and reason. Worldviews offer a vision through the circle of worldviews, interpretations, and testing. A conceptual scheme leads to paradigms and theories. Theories give a vision of the world, because they give Gestalts through new empirical practices of seeking and finding. Arguments, experiments, and social institutions realize and support the habits of a worldview. Worldviews can be good or faithful responses to the world. Moral and epistemic frameworks and virtues are located worldviews, which can be compared metatheoretically through their dialogues. They can show that some worldviews don’t have an adequate strategy for recognizing reality or offering ways of reaching the good. Worldviews also offer core beliefs through its practices of interpretation.

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The Logic of Worldviews

  • Lauri Snellman

摘要

This chapter builds a semiotic logic of worldviews, responses to the world, and the aspects of a belief system: trust, vision, faithfulness, and assent. Worldviews (S,I,M) include a system of signs S, which is interpreted through practices I. The practices have frameworks (agent, distinctions, habits, goals), including the moral framework M. Worldviews rely on natural signs and responses to reality. One encounters the world through empirical practices, which give Gestalts and a way of seeking and finding objects. Language games then build on empirical practices. They constitute communication, action, symbols, and reason. Worldviews offer a vision through the circle of worldviews, interpretations, and testing. A conceptual scheme leads to paradigms and theories. Theories give a vision of the world, because they give Gestalts through new empirical practices of seeking and finding. Arguments, experiments, and social institutions realize and support the habits of a worldview. Worldviews can be good or faithful responses to the world. Moral and epistemic frameworks and virtues are located worldviews, which can be compared metatheoretically through their dialogues. They can show that some worldviews don’t have an adequate strategy for recognizing reality or offering ways of reaching the good. Worldviews also offer core beliefs through its practices of interpretation.