[lit-ideas] Re: Hintikkiana

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  • Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 21:50:59 -0400

According to an online website, "Hintikka" is a ♂ name, a variation from

Hinti ♂

and also found as

Hintta ♂
Hintti ♂
Hintto ♂
Hinttu ♂
Hintu ♂

His complete name was Kaarlo Jaakko Juhani Hintikka.

Kaarlo is of course a variant of Italian "Carlo" (Latin "Carolus").

Kakko is the Finnish form for Jakob (from the Latin "Jacobus")

Finally, his third Christian name is Juhani, which is merely (as someone
might say) the Finnish form of Johannes.

Enough to give Saul Kripke some time about rigid designation!

There are, as Popper would say, "several theories" (all part of W3) that
exist as to the geographic origin of Finnish language.

The most widely held view -- which as Popper says, does not mean the true
one, or the refuted one for that matter -- is that the Finnish language
originated as a Proto-Uralic language somewhere in the boreal forest belt
around the Ural Mountains region and/or the bend of the middle Volga.

The strong case for Proto-Uralic is supported by common vocabulary with
regularities in sound correspondences, as well as by the fact that the Uralic
languages have many similarities in structure and grammar.

In any case, Hintikka was fascinated by English, and wrote about most of
the common words in English, such as 'norm', 'belief', 'each', 'every',
'all'. Only occasionally would he turn to Finnish for illumination*.

Cheers,

Speranza

Geary explains: "The reason is simple: if Hintikka had turned to Finnish
for illumination that might illuminate HIM, not necessarily those who don't
speak Finnish."




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