Commentary highlights challenges in achieving common references in language, suggesting balance in conceptual inference and design.
In the commentary on Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer’s paper, the transcendental problem of coordinating subjective perspectives to achieve a common reference in a full language is explored through the hypothetical construct of “logical aliens” – imaginary beings whose laws of thought contradict our own. The commentary demonstrates significance of Stekeler-Weithofer’s notion of material conceptual inference, similar to Ludwig Wittgenstein’s idea of internal relations. Furthermore, it emphasizes the challenge of achieving a balance between conceptual inference and conceptual design in transcendental logic.
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