Hey folks, here's a quick preview of the second part of episode 252 on Yurgen Habermas'

essay Action, Speech, Acts, Linguistically-mediated Interactions and the Life World.

I'm gonna play you two chunks from right near the beginning we are talking about how

whenever you say anything that statement contains implicit validity claims.

It's saying, this statement is true, I'm being honest about what I'm saying, I want you

to acknowledge that it's true.

How just that amount of normativity built into everyday language actually provides

a foundation for ethics?

Traditionally, we think of validity for language, truth, conditional or formal semantics, right?

So if a sentence is true, it's true because it corresponds to some state of affairs

in the world.

Validity is gonna mean something more for Habermas.

We're going to expand on that.

We're still worried about representation, so that's still there, but there are two more

forms of validity that he's interested in.

One of them is the way in which when we use an utterance, we are expressing our intentions

or subjective experience.

So when I point to something and I say, hey, look, there's a cat on the mat, I'm not really

just pointing to something in the world.

I'm telling them something about my own intention and my desire for them to pay attention to

my intention for us to have shared attention for us, to share this particular experience.

So that's the second thing.

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