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concept: ego trope

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Definition

An example of the Myth of the Nomen. The attempt to give the name subject to the unsayable notion of subjectivity.

Compare ego gap, ego tossAlex O'Connor is off on an "ego trope". The conceptual subject is not the actual subject. There is no actual subject. This is distinct from the strange loop gloss on consciousness. The "problem" of consciousness arises not in self-reflectivity, but in the naming of the un-namable subjectivity.

Daniels Dennetts notion of heterophenomology is an ego trope.

The puzzle is that is that language gives us the ego trope. But language has already solved the problem of the ego. The use of first person-second person-third person means that one has already accepted the intersubjective, transcendental linguistic solution to the problem of solipsism. The Cartesian Theater arises from ego trope. How can the word "I" refer to me, and then to you? How can you call me "you"? What is it that the word is is referring to?

So do we use language to raise the problem of other minds, or do we accept that linguistic practice has already solved the problem of other minds by taking it as a presupposition?

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