Materialist errors are correctable by evidence, not reducible to discursive position

Evidence

The closed language does not demonstrate and explain—it communicates decision, dictum, command. Where it defines, the definition becomes “separation of good from evil”; it establishes unquestionable rights and wrongs, and one value as justification of another value. It moves in tautologies, but the tautologies are terribly effective “sentences.” They pass judgment in a “prejudged form”; they pronounce condemnation. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 414 (#complicates, via linked claim)

The arguments contain material fallacies, that is, errors or evasions that appear only through an analysis of the meaning of the terms, rather than an analysis of the logical form. — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 853 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Sartre, as I read him, is not a Cartesian, however. He does not understand the givens of our situation as pure materialities devoid of human intentionalities. Th ey are facticities. Th at is, consciousness is not, as with Descartes, a passive meaning fi nder as much as it is an active meaning giver. In disclosing the meanings of the world, consciousness also constitutes them. Given that every materiality we confront is already sedimented with historical, social, political, economic, and cultural layers of intentional acts, and given that consciousness fi nds meaning already inhering in the materialities that confront it, it appears that materialities are meaningful in themselves. Facticities, materialities imbued with human meaning, that is, appear to be facts, material givens that seem to be immune from, and independent of, our intentionalities. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 63 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Well-intentioned historical revisionism still fails rigorous evidentiary standards — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab: A History of the…, 937; Material fallacies emerge from examining term meanings rather than form — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 853; Closed language validates itself through tautology and command rather than argument — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 414 (+2 more)

Related

• Sartre rejected Cartesian dualism by treating material givens as meaning-sedimented facticities (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Closed language validates itself through tautology and command rather than argument #complicates (0.75) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 414
• Material fallacies emerge from examining term meanings rather than form #complicates (0.72) — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 853
• Well-intentioned historical revisionism still fails rigorous evidentiary standards #exemplifies (0.70) — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 937
• Sartre rejected Cartesian dualism by treating material givens as meaning-sedimented facticities #exemplifies (0.70) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 63