1277. To What Extent

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To what extent does Whitehead imply, if not assert, that our immediate experience acquires its role as evidence only in the context of some language-game or other wherein it has "paradigmatic" status? (Otherwise put, is Whitehead simply one more philosopher in the line that reaches from Descartes to Husser!, who commits the fallacy of "methodological solipism," or is he, in his own way, well aware of the meaning-constitutive role of language?) 

1. There certainly seems to be an important difference between Whitehead's analysis of the three fillldamental notions underlying all our experience-namely, self, others, and the whole-and, e.g., Apel's analysis in terms of self, other selves, and the external world. To this extent, Whitehead might seem to be, in his own way, a methodological solipsist. 

1. There certainly seems to be an important difference between Whitehead's analysis of the three fillldamental notions underlying all our experience-namely, self, others, and the whole-and, e.g., Apel's analysis in terms of self, other selves, and the external world. To this extent, Whitehead might seem to be, in his own way, a methodological solipsist. 

23 September 1982