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Full Idea
Interpreting a text is a matter of making sense of it. And to make sense of a text is to represent it as making sense.
Gist of Idea
Interpreting a text is representing it as making sense
Source
Michael Morris (Guidebook to Wittgenstein's Tractatus [2008], Intro.2)
Book Ref
Morris,Michael: 'Guidebook to Wittgenstein's Tractatus' [Routledge 2008], p.7
A Reaction
'Making sense' is obviously not a very precise or determinate concept. It is probably better to say that the process is 'trying' to make sense of the text, because most texts don't totally make sense.
| 23460 | To count, we must distinguish things, and have a series with successors in it [Morris,M] |
| 23449 | Interpreting a text is representing it as making sense [Morris,M] |
| 23452 | Discriminating things for counting implies concepts of identity and distinctness [Morris,M] |
| 23451 | Counting needs to distinguish things, and also needs the concept of a successor in a series [Morris,M] |
| 23484 | Bipolarity adds to Bivalence the capacity for both truth values [Morris,M] |
| 23491 | There must exist a general form of propositions, which are predictabe. It is: such and such is the case [Morris,M] |
| 23494 | Conjunctive and disjunctive quantifiers are too specific, and are confined to the finite [Morris,M] |