Summary of Doctoral Dissertation (English Version)

THE “COMMON MENTAL DICTIONARY” BETWEEN LANGUAGE AND METAPHYSICS: INFLUENCES OF PAULUS VENETUS AND FRANCISCO SUÁREZ IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SUBJECT IN GIAMBATTISTA VICO. Extract from doctoral thesis. In the light of the pre-modern antecedents’ reflections on language, and notably on the language of the mind, considered as possible sources of Vico’s reading, the final part of the work, in the fifth chapter, presents a line of reading of the truth value of the mental dictionary, taking up the assumptions ascertained so far. By establishing an interpretation of the common mental dictionary more connected to the level of metaphysics, the investigation recalls some dense parts of the De Antiquissima, particularly those in which the philosopher outlines his metaphysics of the mens. The possibility that Vico’s dictionary of the mind is to be understood as a demonstrative place of truth, in its dimension as a “language tool”, is proposed as a demonstration. Truth is thus formed in the mind by way of a process of synthesis where the connective presence of the dictum may be identified alongside the convertible nature of verum and factum. The former is thus capable of becoming a founding element for perspectives of universality, such as the independence of the subject, intersubjectivity, knowledge and the objectivity of the world.