The conception of language in Descartes and Locke
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.46276/rifce.v8i1.1477Keywords:
Ideas, words, things, language, methodAbstract
The present work establishes an introduction to the analysis of the concept of language, reviewed in the thought of Descartes and Locke. We specifically address the meaning of "ideas" and "words" in both thinkers. We start with a comparison of the definitions and continue with a hermeneutic analysis that allows us a rereading of Cartesian thinking versus Locke's empiricism. The works that we bring to the table are on the one hand The Rules for the Direction of the Spirit (1628) and on the other The Essay on Human Understanding (1690), which are the starting point for analyzing this problematic. Establishing in modernity a precedent of deserved study on language, a subject that is later revised by the contemporary mentality as a cornerstone of the philosophy of language.
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