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The centrality of practice in ideographic communication, and the perennial puzzle of positivistic thinking

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 October 2023

Lucas B. Mazur Open the ORCID record for Lucas B. Mazur [Opens in a new window]  and
Sandra Plontke
Lucas B. Mazur
Affiliation:
Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland lucas.mazur@uj.edu.pl Sigmund Freud University, Berlin, Germany
Sandra Plontke
Affiliation:
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany sandra.plontke@rub.de
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Abstract

To the extent that we expect ideographs to be closer to the reality they depict than spoken or written words we are succumbing to the perennial allure of positivistic thinking. Morin powerfully argues that human communication, including ideography, cannot be understood apart from practice, thus removing the positivistic assumption that made the “puzzle of ideography” puzzling in the first place.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 46 , 2023 , e247
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press

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