Semantyczna skala języków a „hierarchia” sposobów myślenia. Rozważania w świetle myśli Stanisława Lema
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In his texts, Stanisław Lem on one hand takes into consideration
ambiguity, polyinterpretation and muddying of contextual and
connotative nature of a natural language. On the other hand, he takes
into account evolutionary character of that state of affairs, that is to say
the natural language (in its abundance of variants) is the one and
particular so that a man is capable of notionally grasping the
continuously changing world of nature and culture.
This last aspect is especially crucial because, firstly, a language forms
the basis of culture. Secondly, it allows to understand and express
humans’ knowledge about the world — and this knowledge is
continuously developing and complicating itself.
In this text I elaborate on the above mentioned Lem’s position on the
natural language, I also introduce interconnected notions of ‘semantic
scale of languages’ and ‘hierarchy of lines of thought’.
The last one comprises three stages: (1) pre-set thinking (pre-logical),
(2) logical thinking, (3) creative thinking (intuitive). Each of the
mentioned lines of thought is characterized by a corresponding
language with definite features.
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