By Schubert Ogden
The Notebooks of Schubert Ogden
According to Bochenski, there are not only the two kinds of independent ideal constructs that he calls "propositions" (die Sätze) and "instructions" (die Weisungen), but also a third kind that—following John Austin—he calls "performatives" (die Performative) (79). Whereas a proposition expresses what there is, and an instruction expresses what one should do, a performative effects what it means.
My question is whether there is, or is not, a correspondence between these three kinds of independent ideal constructs, on the one hand, and my distinction between belief and action (as the two aspects of life-praxis) and self-understanding, on the other—belief corresponding to propositions, action to instructions, self-understanding to performatives.
14 July 1996
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