For Xunzi, fa are not self-interpreting.
That is, the characteristically Buddhist denial of self is interpreted to refer only to mistaken conceptions of self – such as that of a permanent, singular, or truly existing entity – not the self simpliciter.
Self-study, interpreting each other's stories, and the extensive dialogue which has taken place around this writing, has offered us a creative space to change our perceptions of the tensions existing in the academic CFL community.
In Charles Taylor's phrase, human beings are "self-interpreting animals" (Taylor 1985: 45), where the interpretation is constitutive of the interpreter.
The fundamental problem faced by ordinary language philosophy was that ordinary language is not self-interpreting.
It is also closely related to the ideal of plain or self-interpreting speech, as well as to the notion that some languages display an enviable "closeness" to the nature of things.
Both are equally true, but as a member of a self-interpreting species, one that fights to keep disharmony at a remove, I'm inclined to mention my tenderhearted attentions as a single parent before I get around to the fact that I hit their mother when we were together.
The exponentially increased eventfulness of this book, compared with Lee's others, is perhaps the result of a decision to do something here that he's never done before -- to tell a story in the traditional omniscient-narrator manner rather than the particular, self-interpreting voice of an individual.
Among them are: being self-interpreting (the way in which human beings understand themselves forms a significant part of their identity); being language animals (language mediates their relations to others, to the environment, and to themselves); and having identities that are constituted through dialogue.
that explaining how it is possible for propositions to be so tightly related to their truth-makers without being committed to an abstruse ontology of self-interpreting propositions.
"self-interpreting" propositions that mean what they do irrespective of what speakers or thinkers ever do with the signs or judgements that express them.
