The dynamic development of technology, as well as of AI’s, raises the fundamental question: can machines think? At the beginning of the 20th Century the Austrian philosopher wonders about this problem and analyses it from a logical-philosophical conception which conveys the need to recognize all the elements comprised in the thought-language relationship. An ethical-religious dimension is revealed in certain uses of language. This dimension, which shows the human’s attitude to the world, stems from the human tendency to search for explanations. (...) This attitude does not extend to machines. (shrink)

For Ockham and Wittgenstein the analysis of knowledge is based on language. Both authors uphold the conception of the world from a logical-philosophical dimension configured by the close thought-language relationship. This construct is developed on the basis of the following three aspects: first, concepts are signs of things; second, propositions describe “state of affairs”; and third, knowledge in terms of “habits” is expressed in propositions structured in terms of the “uses” of language. These propositions are established by the thought considered (...) as “activity” and “operation of signs”. By analyzing certain a priori propositions, we recognize the very boundaries of the thought-language relationship, wherein the existential problems of mankind are revealed, whether out of the human tendency of explaining the world as a whole or out of the human attitude in the face of it. (shrink)

For Ockham and Wittgenstein the analysis of knowledge is based on language. Both authors uphold the conception of the world from a logical-philosophical dimension configured by the close thought-language relationship. This construct is developed on the basis of the following three aspects: first, concepts are signs of things; second, propositions describe “state of affairs”; and third, knowledge in terms of “habits” is expressed in propositions structured in terms of the “uses” of language. These propositions are established by the thought considered (...) as “activity” and “operation of signs”. By analyzing certain a priori propositions, we recognize the very boundaries of the thought-language relationship, wherein the existential problems of mankind are revealed, whether out of the human tendency of explaining the world as a whole or out of the human attitude in the face of it. (shrink)

Resumen El presente estudio examina el carácter semántico del concepto en la obra de Guillermo de Ockham. Trabajo que comprende las siguientes etapas: primero, análisis del concepto a partir de las teorías de abstracción formal en Avicena y Tomás de Aquino. Segundo, comprensión de la primacía del conocimiento intuitivo sobre el conocimiento abstracto para la configuración del concepto. Tercero, análisis del carácter semántico del concepto en cuanto hábito mental, ipsamet intellectio, y signo que se predica de las cosas.This study examines (...) the semantic nature of the concept in William of Ockham's work and considers the following aspects: first, the analysis of the concept based on Avicenna's and Thomas Aquinas’ theory of formal abstraction; second, understanding that the intuitive knowledge has primay over the abstract knowledge when shaping the concept and third, the analysis of the semantic nature of the concept as mental habit, ipsamet intellectio, and sign which predicates of things. (shrink)