THE TWO TRIANGULATIONS: TOWARDS THE EXTERNAL OBJECT AND TOWARDS OBJECTIVE/SUBJECTIVE CONTRAST

Abstract

First vertex, own belief; second vertex, alien belief contradicts one’s own; result, that is, third vertex, the ability to question oneself by reality itself. Thus we propose reformulating Davidson’s intersubjective and linguistic triangulation and his humanized realism. And so reformulated we put it in relation, both of similarity and of difference, with the lower triangulation (sensory image of one channel, sensory image of another channel, and as a result the distal stimulus, that is, the object perceived outside the skin and thus outside the sensorily controlled field), and with the consequent bilateral symmetry of the body and the animal brain. What do we suggest with this relationship? It was only thanks to linguistic communication and the restructuring it imposed on a much more primitive resource (that of triangulation connected with bilateral brain symmetry), that development could lead to that exclusively human intellectual capacity.