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Ineffability: The very concept

Sebastian Gäb

Philosophia 48 (5):1-12 (2020)

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Mystical ineffability: a nonconceptual theory.Sebastian Gäb - 2024 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion (1):1-16.details This paper discusses the nonconceptual theory of mystical ineffability which claims that mystical experiences can’t be expressed linguistically because they can’t be conceptualized. I discuss and refute two objections against it: (a) that unconceptualized experiences are impossible, and (b) that the theory is ad hoc because it provides no reason for why mystical experiences should be unconceptualizable. I argue against (a) that distinguishing different meanings of ‘object of experience’ leaves open the possibility of non-empty but objectless nonconceptual experiences. I show (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
The Ineffable Case of Expressives.Justina Berškytė - 2022 - Filozofia Nauki 30 (4):77-99.details Expressive terms (damn, fuck, bastard) are said to convey speakers’ attitudes and feelings. These can be positive or negative, depending on the context. In this paper, I focus on the property of expressives that I take to be of the most importance: descriptive ineffability. Descriptive ineffability is a property of expressive terms for which no suitable descriptive paraphrase can be found that captures the full meaning of the expressive. In the face of arguments that attempt to show either that descriptive (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
Language and Its Limits: Meaning, Reference and the Ineffable in Buddhist Philosophy.Johan Blomberg & Przemysław Żywiczyński - 2022 - Topoi 41 (3):483-496.details Buddhist schools of thought share two fundamental assumptions about language. On the one hand, language is identified with conceptual thinking, which according to the Buddhist doctrine separates us from the momentary and fleeting nature of reality. Language is comprised of generally applicable forms, which fuel the reificatory proclivity for clinging to the distorted – and ultimately fictious – belief in substantial existence. On the other hand, the distrust of language is mitigated by the doctrine of ineffability, which although asserts that (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
Meaning and Metaphysical Necessity.Tristan Grotvedt Haze - 2022 - New York: Routledge.details This book is about the idea that some true statements would have been true no matter how the world had turned out, while others could have been false. It develops and defends a version of the idea that we tell the difference between these two types of truths in part by reflecting on the meanings of words. It has often been thought that modal issues—issues about possibility and necessity—are related to issues about meaning. In this book, the author defends the (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 2 citations
A “Modest” Primitivist Theory of Truth: The Ineffability of Truth, Effability of the Correspondence Relation.Marco Simionato - 2023 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 79 (3):937-964.details The primitivist theory of truth, i.e., the view that truth cannot be analysed in more fundamental terms, has been cleverly revamped by Jamin Asay, who has combined a primitivist approach to the concept of truth with a deflationary approach to the (metaphysical) property of being true. This paper aims to adjust Asay’s primitivist theory to consistently include the primitiveness of the (pre-theoretical) correspondence relation, grasped by our correspondence intuition, alongside the primitiveness of truth. In the process, I apply a thesis (...) Download Export citation Bookmark

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