World and Logic

<p> </p><p>What is the relationship between the world and logic between intuition and language between objects and their quantitative determinations? Rationalists on the one hand hold that the world is structured in a rational way. Representationalists on the other hand assume that language logic and mathematics are only the means to order and describe the intuitively given world. In <em>World and Logic</em> Jens Lemanski takes up three surprising arguments from Arthur Schopenhauer's hitherto undiscovered Berlin Lectures which concern the philosophy of language logic and mathematics. Based on these arguments Lemanski develops a new position entitled 'rational representationalism': the world is always structured by human beings according to linguistic logical and mathematical principles but the basic vocabulary of these structural descriptions already contains metaphors taken from the world around us.</p>