TY - JOUR N2 - The author develops a non‑literary, theistic Weltanschauung. It is based on the acceptance of the role of ‘did’ and ‘knows’ as non‑empirical conceptual (indefinable) ‘primes’. The basic argument of this paper is derived from a detailed linguistic observation of the idiosyncratic behaviour of the concepts ‘why’ and ‘because’ vis‑à‑vis other questioners and the functor ‘can’. The item ‘because’ presupposes a conjunction with a clause indicating an obligatorily altogether different state of affairs than one that is given in ‘a because ...’, as an expression patterned on * ‘a because a’ that constitutes a case of one of the most extreme linguistic deviances. Such a putative phrase cannot belong to any natural linguistic code, nor can it be its real product (that is no other than a quip in a purely perlocutionary utterance in J.L. Austin’s sense). Similarly, a generalized version of ‘did’ or ‘knows’ ( someone did / knows something without any specification) cannot be positioned in such a conjunction on pain of engaging in a destructive infinite regress, unless they are coupled with some further, different concept (i.e. a concept other than ‘did’ resp. ‘know’) in a concatenation with ‘because’. According to the author, this shows that precisely the two indicated concepts are conceptual ‘primes’, or the fundamental synthetic a priori’s whose denotata underlie the whole of the reality. The author tries to show that it is unacceptable to reduce Reality to a single and unique empirical universe conceived of as an effect of ‘doing’. He claims that Ockham’s idea of multiplicity of universes represents a logical necessity. But he rejects the mystical höheres in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus as including „pure logic”, ethics and aesthetics. All the three areas, he claims, belong to the created natural realm of speaking beings. Reality, grasped by logic, is broader than that realm. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/123407/PDF/2022-01-PFIL-01-Boguslawski.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/123407 PY - 2022 IS - No 1 EP - 25 DO - 10.24425/pfns.2022.141103 KW - ‘because’ KW - ‘can’ KW - ‘did’ KW - indefinable KW - ‘knows’ KW - primes KW - questioner KW - theism KW - Weltanschauung KW - ‘why’ A1 - Bogusławski, Andrzej PB - Komitet Nauk Filozoficznych PAN PB - Wydział Filozofii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego DA - 2022.06.14 T1 - A linguistics‑based non‑literary Weltanschauung: The concepts ‘did’ and ‘knows’ as non‑empirical primes SP - 5 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/123407 T2 - Przegląd Filozoficzny. Nowa Seria ER -