Performative contradiction
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A performative contradiction (German: performativer Widerspruch) arises when a speech-act rests on non-contingent presuppositions that contradict the proposition asserted in that speech-act.[1] The term was coined by Jürgen Habermas and Karl-Otto Apel, who attribute the first elaboration of the concent to Jaakko Hintikka, in his analysis of Descartes' cogito ergo sum argument.[1][2] Hintikka concluding that cogito ergo sum relies on performance rather than logical inference.[3]
Habermas claims that post-modernism's epistemological relativism suffers from a performative contradiction. Hans-Hermann Hoppe claims in his theory of discourse ethics that arguing against self-ownership results in a performative contradiction.[4]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Haberman, Jürgen (1990). Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action. Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. p. 80. ISBN 978-0-7456-11044.
- ↑ Apel, Karl-Otto (1975). "The problem of philosophical fundamental-grounding in light of a transcendental pragmatic of language". Man and World 8 (3): 239–275. doi:10.1007/BF01255646.
- ↑ Hintikka, Jaakko (1962). "Cogito, Ergo Sum: Inference or Performance?". The Philosophical Review 71 (1): 3–32. doi:10.2307/2183678.
- ↑ Hoppe, Hans-Hermann (September 1988). "The Ultimate Justification of Private Property". Liberty 1: 20. http://www.hanshoppe.com/wp-content/uploads/publications/hoppe_ult_just_liberty.pdf.
Further reading
- Habermas, Jürgen (1990). "Discourse Ethics: Notes on a Program of Philosophical Justification". in Habermas. Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action. trans. C. Lenhardt and S.W. Nicholsen. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. https://archive.org/details/moralconsciousne0000habe.
- Hoppe, Hans-Hermann. "On the Ultimate Justification of the Ethics of Private Property". The Economics and Ethics of Private Property.
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