Roots for Llull’s Philosophy of Language

With this article, the author aims at showing that Llull’s
Liber contemplationis in Deum is the main source to grasp the roots of Llull’s philosophy of language, which he is a precursor of. The missionary purpose and apologetic stance that Llull adopted made him
conceive his own demonstration and argumentation around inter-faith dialogue at a time when there was a splitting of topical and scientific reason due to the Aristotelian reception. He found out a sixth sense,
which he called effatus, which is neither voice nor language, but the word, the oral expression that expresses the interior conception as grasped by the five body senses, points that allow us to enter into the
examination of speech acts and see the fundamental rationality and its conditions not to fall into the fallacy of contradiction.