RT Journal Article
T1 Patterns, patterns, patterns: art and meaning at the crossroads between two opposing forces
A1 Ramírez Calle, Olga
K1 Paradojas
K1 Creación artística
AB This article aims to defend the need to recognize the independent role of those cognitive abilities on whose behalf linguistic meaning is introduced from the proper institution of language. I call this capacity “private pattern recognition” (PPR) and argue that it plays an essential part not just in the instauration of linguistic meaning but also in other relevant cognitive phenomena such as artistic creation and understanding. Moreover, it is precisely the failure to separate both aspects that gives rise to important perplexities associated with the underdetermination of meaning. The first part of the article makes a case for this thesis and addresses its compatibility with Wittgenstein's private language argument. It then focuses on the example of art to illustrate the differing roles of private pattern recognition and shared linguistic meaning. The second part of the article focuses on the paradox of resemblance (RP). It (i) considers the difficulties of Williamson's response, (ii) illustrates how they instead support the current thesis, (iii) attempts to delineate how the role of meaning should be understood, and (iv) briefly revisits the rule-following paradox (RFP).
PB Wiley
YR 2020
FD 2020-03-24
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/34250
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/34250
LA eng
NO Ramirez Calle, O. (2020), Patterns, Patterns, Patterns: Art and Meaning at the Crossroads between Two Opposing Forces. Theoria, 86 (2) 220-244. https://doi.org/10.1111/theo.12233
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 22 ene 2026