ON PRAGMATIC AND NON-PRAGMATIC CONCEPT OF EXPLANATION

• Authors: Zelenak E.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper attempts to analyze in detail the difference between a pragmatic and non-pragmatic approach to the explanation. The proponents of a pragmatic explanation analyze it by means of the concepts of context or audience. However, there could be various disguises of this type of the approach. It is possible to include the pragmatic concepts into the characterization of the item to be explained or the item that explains. On the other hand, the pragmatic approach may focus on the specific relation between the item to be explained or the item that explains. Finally, the paper underlines that there is a distinction between a pragmatic approach to the explanation and the pragmatics of the explanation, which should not be ignored.

Keywords

EN

EXPLANATION; NON-PRAGMATIC EXPLANATION; PRAGMATIC EXPLANATION

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Institute of Philosophy of Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
• Journal: Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 334-348
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Zelenak E.

• E. Zelenak, Katedra filozofie, Katolicka Univerzita, Hrabovska cesta 1, 034 01 Ruzomberok, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07SKAAAA02244708