What is faultless disagreement? An outline of the problem of faultless disagreement and a proposal for interpretation Cover Image

Czym jest faultless disagreement? Zarys problemu „bezbłędnej niezgody” i propozycja interpretacji
What is faultless disagreement? An outline of the problem of faultless disagreement and a proposal for interpretation

Author(s): Tomasz Łach
Subject(s): Philosophy of Language, Rhetoric
Published by: Fundacja »Lubelska Szkoła Filozofii Chrześcijańskiej«
Keywords: faultless disagreement; performative utterance; speech acts; felicity conditions; maxims of conversations; common sense; relativism;

Summary/Abstract: The subject of this article is the so-called faultless disagreement problem, and the author's goals are the general characteristics of this problem made from the perspective of philosophy and rhetoric; secondly, the presentation of main positions that have been formulated over this issue; thirdly, the presentation of the controversies can be formulated about it (in the form of 6 questions), and, fourthly, the presentation of a proposal to solve this problem by using the tools provided by the following concepts formulated on the basis of the philosophy of language: John L. Austin’s concept of Performative Utterances, John R. Searle's concept of the Felicity Conditions, Paul Grice's Maxims of Conversation and Chaim Perelman's concept of Common Sense and the hypothesis of "Meeting of Minds".

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 31/1
  • Page Range: 125-139
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish