Proponemos el siguiente fragmento del texto de Frápolli y Villanueva “Minimal Expressivism” para continuar online la discusión iniciada en la última sesión del seminario. En esta entrada sí se permiten comentarios.
“Would anyone be willing to talk to a shaman? What about the Pope? Of course, people cue to be in the presence of those who are connected to the Divine, but do they do that because they want to have a chat with them? They want to receive some advice, some guidance for a better life, comfort or warning concerning their future, but surely they will not discuss the nuisances of last seasonʼs Champions League for their favourite team, the psychological details of a Dostoyevskiʼs character, or the best way to reform the public education system in southern European countries. And the reason is: a shaman, or the Pope, do not talk. They certainly utter words that we all can understand, some might say that the sentences they produce are even meaningful, but we still would not engage in conversation with them, because nothing but the Truth can be expected from them. Both the justification of the things they say, and the special use of the words they exhibit, are not subjected to revision. When somebody acts as if their access to reality was unmediated by propositional attitudes, and therefore immune to error, we simply cannot interact with them as rational speakers.”
