[fr] Dans "Le mythe de la signification", Quine a suggéré que l'objectivisme sémantique ou logique était une forme de platonisme totalement incompatible avec une saine attitude empirique envers le langage. Repartant de sa critique, je propose d'abord de distinguer deux sens du mot "platonisme" (engagement ontologique en faveur d'entités intemporelles et non spatiales/absence de justification empirique pour cet engagement ontologique), je passe brièvement en revue les positions de Husserl et de Frege, puis je suggère que leur racine commune est l'interprétation de la théorie platonicienne des Idées défendue par Lotze. Je relève enfin plusieurs aspects de cette interprétation qui, paradoxalement, contredisent l'idée d'un platonisme de Lotze et suggèrent au contraire qu'il défend un objectivisme sémantique sans platonisme. [en] As Quine suggested, the so-called logical or semantical objectivism may be described as a form of platonism, which is hardly consistent with a good empirical analysis of language. In this paper I discuss this criticism in the light of Lotze's interpretation of the platonic Ideas, which is commonly regarded as a common source of Husserl's and Frege's objectivism. I first propose to distinguish two senses of the word "platonism" (as an ontological commitment in favour of intemporal and non-spatial entities/as a lack of empirical justification regarding such an ontological commitment). I then apply this distinction to Husserl, Frege and Lotze. As a result, Quine's suggestion seems to me to be historically right but philosophically questionable, insofar as several aspects of Lotze's theory of "validity" (Geltung) suggest that, despite the reference to Plato, he adopts an objectivism without platonism.
Research Center/Unit :
Phénoménologies - ULiège
Disciplines :
Philosophy & ethics
Author, co-author :
Dewalque, Arnaud ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de philosophie > Phénoménologies
Language :
French
Title :
Idée et signification. Le legs de Lotze et les ambiguïtés du platonisme
Alternative titles :
[en] Idea and meaning. Lotze's Legacy and the Ambiguities of Platonism [de] Idee und Bedeutung. Lotze's Vermächtnis und die Zweideutigkeiten des Platonismus
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