Non-objectifying acts

Jocelyn Benoist

Université Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne

pp. 41-49

in: Dan Zahavi, Frederik Stjernfelt (eds), One hundred years of phenomenology, Deventer, Kluwer, 2002

Abstract

As Frege remarked before Austin, and Aristotle before Frege: language is not made of descriptive sentences only. A task traditionally assigned to logicians is to explain how to distinguish those sentences from others.