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Editorial Preface Erns t Pöppel A Toolbox for Thinking1 — an essay All thinking is adjustment. He who knows others is wise Chrishan Morgenstern He who know himself is enlightened He who masters others is strong He who masters himself is invincible We never come to thoughts. They come He who knows to content himself is rich to us. He who prevails is strong-willed Martin Heidegger He, who does not lose his essence, endures He who dies without perishing lives eternally. If I think, then I am: indeed! Yet who can Lao-tse think always? Many times I have been, and I have really For thinking and being are the same. thought of nothing. Parmenides Jobann Woljgang Goethe and Friedrich Schiller Wha t actually are the features of mental phenomena? How can the human spirit be characterized? What constitutes the mental? (Or rather, if one prefers another terminology: What is the soul like?) The American philosopher John Searle mentions four criteria that characterize mental phenomena, namely self- consciousness (I can refer to myself), subjectivity (cognition is always related to myself), causality (I can willingly cause something) and intentionality (the psyche always refers to "something"). I shall try to characterize the mental through http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Cognitive Semiotics de Gruyter

Editorial Preface

Cognitive Semiotics , Volume 1 (s1): 18 – Sep 1, 2007

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© 2013 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co.
ISSN
2235-2066
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2235-2066
DOI
10.1515/cogsem.2007.1.fall2007.7
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Erns t Pöppel A Toolbox for Thinking1 — an essay All thinking is adjustment. He who knows others is wise Chrishan Morgenstern He who know himself is enlightened He who masters others is strong He who masters himself is invincible We never come to thoughts. They come He who knows to content himself is rich to us. He who prevails is strong-willed Martin Heidegger He, who does not lose his essence, endures He who dies without perishing lives eternally. If I think, then I am: indeed! Yet who can Lao-tse think always? Many times I have been, and I have really For thinking and being are the same. thought of nothing. Parmenides Jobann Woljgang Goethe and Friedrich Schiller Wha t actually are the features of mental phenomena? How can the human spirit be characterized? What constitutes the mental? (Or rather, if one prefers another terminology: What is the soul like?) The American philosopher John Searle mentions four criteria that characterize mental phenomena, namely self- consciousness (I can refer to myself), subjectivity (cognition is always related to myself), causality (I can willingly cause something) and intentionality (the psyche always refers to "something"). I shall try to characterize the mental through

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Cognitive Semioticsde Gruyter

Published: Sep 1, 2007

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