Abstract
This paper addresses the notion of dialectics in the linguistic bodies theory. First, it presents it as a three-aspect concept, namely, the ontological aspect, the methodological aspect, and the dialectical model. Subsequently, it discusses the ontological aspect and the dialectical model and, based on the enactivist linguistic notions of concreteness and abstraction, suggests that it can be conceived as a two-fold concept: methodological and epistemological. This suggestion intends to avoid the paradox we are led to by acknowledging three ontological enactivist claims and a few assumptions of the methodological approach.Keywords: Dialectics, Enactivism, Language, Epistemology, Ontology.
Highlights
In order to provide a new enactive-based approach to cognition that deals with the categorical gap between lower-order and higher-order cognitive processes the authors of the book Linguistic Bodies: The Continuity Between Life and Language (2018, MIT Press) proposed a rich and intricate theory of cognition aiming at dissolving the incompatibility between correction criteria and natural explanations
Dialectic situations occur in the three levels of cognition and among them, and in each step of the model towards the realization of linguistic agency, for each of those steps is the result of an interplay between tensions that logically anticipate them (Di Paolo; Cuffari; De Jaegher, 2018)
For a textual reference to the reading I presented in the previous paragraph, I refer to two citations, where the authors explain the opposing tendencies of the sixth step of the dialectical model - between utterance production and interpretation, and where they refer to the superseding of dialectical situations, respectively
Summary
In order to provide a new enactive-based approach to cognition that deals with the categorical gap between lower-order and higher-order cognitive processes the authors of the book Linguistic Bodies: The Continuity Between Life and Language (2018, MIT Press) proposed a rich and intricate theory of cognition aiming at dissolving the incompatibility between correction criteria and natural explanations. This third aspect illustrates the main challenge to which I point at, namely, when we say that the theoretical model is inseparable from concrete relations we find in the human lifeworld, which reflects the perspective put forward in the book - that we bring forth a world in the relations with our milieu (social environment) - we must acknowledge that everything there is, is constituted by relations, there is no ontological claim deeper that that. Filosofia Unisinos – Unisinos Journal of Philosophy – 22(1):108116, jan/apr 2021
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