Lockův skromný návrh nauky o znacích

• Authors: Petr Glombíček

Title variants

EN

Locke’s modest proposal of a doctrine of signs

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The article concerns Locke’s philosophy of language. After presenting Locke’s theory of meaning and his motivation for introducing it, the author summarises Locke’s taxonomy of signs and thereby shows that Locke is introducing a concept of the conventional sign as a symptom of belief (not as an icon for a thing or a state of things). On this basis, and on the basis of Locke’s division of the sciences, the article shows that the so-called doctrine of signs takes the place of metaphysics, i.e. of first philosophy. The author goes on to show, on the basis of a discussion of the words child and doctrine, that the aim of this doctrine is not purely theoretical, rather it is primarily educational: the doctrine itself is not well-supported by a theory that might serve as the grounding for other theories, instead it is above all a proposal for a new concept the concept of a sign which can aid the acquisition of knowledge.

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filosofický časopis (Philosophical Journal)
• Year: 2005
• Volume: 53
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 67-83
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Petr Glombíček

• Filosofický časopis, redakce, Filosofický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic