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    Human beings require a rational and sensory sign system (... — Carmelics
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    Human beings require a rational and sensory sign system (language) to communicate intellectual content to one another.

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    • 1.Humans derive intellectual content from sensation directly or through sensory communication from other humans.
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    • 2.Nothing can be transferred from one reasoning mind to another except by sensory means.
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    • 3.Unlike angels, demons, and other animals, humans lack a non-sensory means of mind-to-mind transmission.
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    • 1.Mathematical and logical truths are grasped through rational intuition that is independent of any particular sensory sign system.
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    • 2.Leibniz and Frege demonstrate that logical relations hold necessarily prior to and independent of linguistic formulation.
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    • 3.If intellectual content can be apprehended directly through reason, sensory signs are instruments of convenience, not necessary conditions for transmission.
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    • 1.Wittgenstein's rule-following considerations show that no finite set of sensory signs uniquely determines the intellectual content it is meant to convey.
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    • 2.If sensory signs underdetermine intellectual content, then the actual transmission of determinate intellectual content cannot be fully explained by the sensory sign system itself.
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    There are nineteen chapter divisions to part one. Chapters 1–3 lay the groundwork by discussing the basic purposes of human language. Here, Dante quite rightly recognizes that, even were we to regard intellectual content as immaterial, human beings are nevertheless constituted in such a way as to derive intellectual content initially from sensation directly (as in the case of induction arriving at a first principle) or through the sensory communication of intellectual content from one human bein
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