scholarly journals Quine and the Problem of Truth

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Title Page ◽  
Philosophical Problem ◽  
Explanatory Role ◽  
Philosophical Reflection

<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p>Widespread deflationistic readings of Quine misrepresent his view of disquotation’s significance and the truth predicate’s utility. I demonstrate this by answering a question that philosophers have not directly addressed: how does Quine understand the philosophical problem of truth? A primary thesis of this paper is that we can answer this question only by working from within Quine’s naturalistic framework. Drawing on neglected texts from Quine's corpus, I defend the view that, for Quine, the problem of truth emerges from the development of science, in particular, from logical theorizing. I show that disquotation itself, from this Quinean point of view, is the problematic phenomenon calling for philosophical reflection. I conclude by arguing that Quine does not envisage the kind of explanatory role for disquotation taken up by contemporary deflationists, and he shows no interest in the task that animates deflationism, namely, to show that concerns with truth’s nature are fundamentally confused.</p></div></div></div>

scholarly journals Improving Service of Quality using Quality Function Deployment

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 68
Author(s):  
Ratna Ekasari ◽  
Nurul Aziza ◽  
M Adhi Prasnowo ◽  
Khoirul Hidayat
Keyword(s):  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
Completion Time ◽  
Quality Function Deployment ◽  
Employee Performance ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Title Page ◽  
Quality Function ◽  
Services Industry ◽  
Number Of Customers

<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>AdiTeknik </span><span>is one of the garages in Sidoarjo, East Java, Indonesia, engaged in repairing services industry tools. This garage recently has problems in attracting customers. Prior studies suggest that one of the things that affect the number of customers is customer satisfaction. After listening to complaints from several consumers, consumers said that they are less satisfied with the quality of the garage. This phenomenon become the trigger for us to investigate the customer satisfaction especially on the </span><span>AdiTeknik </span><span>garage. One method that can be used to help companies to improve the quality according to customer point of view is Quality Function Deployment (QFD). We find that there are twelve attributes of the desires and needs of consumers to improve the quality of garage service of </span><span>AdiTeknik. </span><span>Those are the quality of repair, cleanliness and neatness of the garage, complete facilities for customer, employee performance, repair results in accordance with demand, timeliness of completion, the ability to analyze problems, clarity fees and the completion time, warranty repair results, employee friendliness, ease of contacting a workshop, and a willingness to give feedback. </span></p></div></div></div>

scholarly journals E O VERBO FEZ-SE CARNE: A EUCARISTIA ENQUANTO ATO INSTITUINTE DO SER

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (18) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Mauro Meireles
Keyword(s):  
Mikhail Bakhtin ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Title Page ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Anthropology Of Religion ◽  
Existence Of God ◽  
The One ◽  
Physical Phenomena

<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p>A eucaristia é um rito católico que visa reafirmar a fé cristã. O presente texto ocupa-se, portanto, da eucaristia enquanto ato instituinte do ser e busca pensar o referido rito a partir da perspectiva de Mikhail Bakhtin. Desta feita e a partir do enfoque da antropologia, se ancora em certas sínteses na medida em que, a validade daquilo que se pressupõe verdade, do ponto de vista da cognição, não depende do fato desta ser ou não ser conhecida por alguém. Pois, é o homem que une fé e rito, que une verdades da ciência e fenômenos físicos. Desta feita, tem-se então que, quando postulamos a existência de Deus a partir de certos escritos canônicos – e o reafirmamos no rito eucarístico – lhe conferimos existência e tangibilidade. Sobretudo, defende- se no decorrer do texto que a eucaristia, seja enquanto ato instituinte, seja enquanto rito, nada mais é do que uma enunciação de si sobre si que só tem significado, manifesto em seu conteúdo- sentido, se enunciado por aquele que experimenta e executa o ato.</p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>P</span><span>ALAVRAS</span><span>-C</span><span>HAVE</span><span>: </span><span>Eucaristia. Rito Eucarístico. Mikhail Bakhtin. Rito e Fé. Antropologia da Religião. </span></p><p><span>A</span><span>BSTRACT </span></p><p><span>Eucharist is a Catholic rite that aims to reaffirm the Christian faith. This paper analyzes the Eucharist rite as instituted act of being and aims think that rite in the Mikhail Bakhtin ́s perspective. So, from an anthropology's approach, it is based in some perspectives that recognize validity in of what is assumed true, in a cognition point of view, depends on whether this is or is not known to anyone. That is because the man is the one who unites faith and rite, truths of science and physical phenomena. Therefore, when we postulate the existence of God from certain canonical writings - and reaffirm the Eucharistic rite, we give him existence and tangibility. Most of all, this text argued that the Eucharist is as instituted act or a rite, is nothing more than a statement of itself that only has meaning, manifest in their content-sense, if enunciated by one who experience and performs the act. </span></p><p><span>K</span><span>EYWORDS</span><span>: </span><span>Eucharist. Eucharistic rite. Mikhail Bakhtin. Ritual and faith. Anthropology of Religion </span></p></div></div></div>

scholarly journals As folhas de rostro nos livros ilustrados de literatura infantojuvenil: uma proposta tipológica

2016 ◽  
pp. 335
Author(s):  
Gabriela Sotto Mayor
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Title Page ◽  
Narrative Development ◽  
Visual Narrative ◽  
The World ◽  
Title Pages ◽  
Illustrated Book

Os paratextos no contexto do livro ilustrado de literatura infantojuvenil (LIJ) são, muitas vezes, meramente decorativos, ao contrário do que se espera desses elementos no livro-álbum. No entanto, exemplos há em que excedem com frequência essa função e assumem papéis importantes no sistema de comunicação. Cada vez mais se verifica, mesmo no livro ilustrado, a utilização destes elementos (como as capas/contracapas, guardas, páginas de rosto) para além do simples embelezamento, fruto da contribuição consciente do ilustrador. Assim, na esteira de que todas as partes do livro merecem especial dedicação, o foco de atenção deste artigo é a folha de rosto, elemento paratextual que ainda não tinha sido examinado em profundidade sob o ponto de vista gráfico nem merecera estudos aprofundando a sua importância comunicativa. Como parte integrante de um estudo mais abrangente, este artigo, de carácter qualitativo, toma como corpus os livros de literatura infantojuvenil que, entre 2000 e 2009, inclusive, receberam o prémio máximo, menções especiais e recomendações no Prémio Nacional de Ilustração. As folhas de rosto confirmaram-se como veículos semânticos, avançando informações relacionadas com a caracterização das personagens, com o esclarecimento da temática ou com a antecipação do desenvolvimento narrativo, entre outras. Paratexts in the context of children’s and young adult literature (CYAL) are often purely decorative, however, in the world of picturebooks it is increasingly common to introduce illustrated elements, which often contribute to the visual narrative and thus a reader’s construction of meaning. It's increasingly more frequent, even in an illustrated book to see paratexts (such as the covers / back covers, endpapers, title pages) being used beyond simple beautification, as a conscious result of the illustrator contribution.Recognizing that all parts of an illustrated book deserve special dedication, the focus of this article is the title page, paratextual element that had not been examined in depth in a graphical point of view or deserved studies deepening their communicative importance. As part of a broader study, this article shares results from the qualitative analysis of a corpus containing books distinguished with the highest prize, special mentions and recommendations from the jury of the Portuguese National Illustration Prize, between 2000 and 2009.Title pages were confirmed as semantic vehicles, advancing information related to characters' features, with the clarification of the theme or the anticipation of narrative development, among others.

scholarly journals Radiografía de la pandemia: análisis de la cobertura periodística de la Covid-19 en portadas de periódicos

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan-Ignacio Cantero-de-Julián ◽  
Pavel Sidorenko-Bautista ◽  
José-María Herranz-de-la-Casa
Keyword(s):  
News Coverage ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Front Page ◽  
Explanatory Role ◽  
Thematic Content Analysis ◽  
The Press ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
Different Levels

Covid-19 has resulted in a totally extraordinary and anomalous situation. This new coronavirus became a global phenomenon after the declaration of a pandemic state, which affects all fields: health, economic, social, scientific, environmental, etc. This health emergency affects many different levels and actors, including media and journalism. As far as news coverage is concerned, the front page of the press represents a relevant object of study from a journalistic, as well as sociological and historiographical, point of view. The front page plays an important temporary explanatory role, especially during an event as disruptive as the pandemic. It offers the possibility to take a “snapshot” of the coverage of an ongoing event. The aim of this research is to analyze the coverage of the new coronavirus and its evolution throughout the first quarter of 2020. To answer these questions, a thematic content analysis of 630 front pages of seven Spanish national generalist newspapers (El país, El mundo, ABC, La razón, La vanguardia, El periódico, and El correo) was carried out. The results indicated that information about the virus increased progressively as the epidemic approached the Spanish borders. The coverage in the Spanish newspapers was highly homogeneous, although some differences can be found, mainly due to editorial trends and regional or national perspectives. The pattern of the analyzed samples is characterized by the current diagnosis of the pandemic, highly focused on the definition of the problem and the proposal of health solutions. Resumen La Covid-19 ha provocado una situación completamente extraordinaria y anómala. El nuevo coronavirus se ha convertido en un fenómeno global tras la declaración de un estado pandémico que afecta a todos los campos: sanitario, económico, social, científico, medioambiental, etc. Esta emergencia sanitaria afecta también a distintos niveles y actores, entre ellos los medios y el periodismo. En lo que a cobertura informativa se refiere, la portada de prensa representa un objeto de estudio relevante desde el punto de vista periodístico, pero también sociológico e historiográfico. La página principal juega un importante papel temporal explicativo, especialmente durante un evento tan disruptivo como la pandemia. Ofrece la posibilidad de “fotografiar” la cobertura de un acontecimiento en curso. El objetivo de esta investigación es analizar la cobertura del nuevo coronavirus y su evolución a lo largo del primer trimestre de 2020. Para responder a estas cuestiones, se realiza un análisis de contenido temático de 630 portadas de siete periódicos generalistas españoles de alcance nacional: El país, El mundo, ABC, La razón, La vanguardia, El periódico y El correo. Los resultados indican que la información sobre el virus ha ido aumentando progresivamente según la epidemia se hacía más próxima hasta estar dentro de las fronteras españolas. También que la cobertura fue muy homogénea en los diarios españoles, aunque se localizan algunas diferencias sobre todo por tendencias editoriales y por perspectiva regional o nacional. Asimismo, el patrón de los encuadres analizados se caracteriza por el diagnóstico actual de la pandemia muy enfocado en la definición del problema y la propuesta de soluciones sanitarias.

scholarly journals “A maximum in its kind” : the problem of the absolute between Novalis and Kant.

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (35) ◽  
pp. 15-29
Author(s):  
Fernando M. F. Silva
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
A Priori ◽  
German Idealism ◽  
Philosophical Problem ◽  
Philosophical Reflection ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Century Thought

The problem of the absolute, in its religious, political, aesthetic and/or philosophical scopes, is one of the fundamental propeller springs of 18th century thought, especially in Kant’s time and until the period of German Idealism. This paper intends to approach the problem in its philosophical-aesthetic dimension and to discern how the problem of thinking or experiencing the absolute, in the form of philosophical systematicity, as it was legated by Kant and his generation, was one of the main theoretical questions received by a whole generation of young authors. In order to best demonstrate this, we chose the example of the poet and philosopher Novalis. Our objective is, therefore, to investigate how openly, or how negatively Novalis read Kant’s proposition of the a priori and the critical edifice based upon it, and to render evident Novalis’ negation of the possibility of experiencing the absolute but in an “infinite approximation”. We also seek to suggest what could have been Kant’s reply to the objections, namely, an anthropological reply that might have shown the full reach of Kant’s conception of his critical edifice and his philosophical reflection, which might have displayed a new dimension of the reflection on the human in Kant, and thus might have partially exempted the philosopher from the reproaches of his younger readers. Finally, we want to present both Novalis’ and Kant’s (to a certain extent) surprisingly close conception of poetry as the key for the philosophical problem of the absolute.

scholarly journals Patočka’s Socrates: The Care for the Soul and Human Existence

2021 ◽  
pp. 87
Author(s):  
L’ubica Učník
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Philosophical Reflection ◽  
Dead End ◽  
The World

In order to get out of present day discussions between (for example) determinism and free will, creationism and evolution, bios and zoē, human existence and biological life – those dead end binaries of our present day thinking into which we have manoeuvred ourselves – we need to revisit the Ancient discussions relating to the care of the soul and human existence. I will draw together these two themes from Jan Patočka’s writings by anchor-ing them in his account of Socrates who was the first to emphasise the idea of human re-sponsibility not only for thinking but also for human acting in the world. I will argue that the significant common feature – the care for our own being, our existence – brings Patočka’s reflections on the care for the soul and care for our human existence together. While, according to Patočka, the notion of the care for the soul was displaced from the philosophical reflection by the modern scientific venture, the idea of human existence is, although problematic from the scientific point of view, still a part of our experience.Para librarnos de discusiones contemporáneas entre (por ejemplo) determinismo y libre albedrío, creacionismo y evolución, bios y zoē, existencia humana y vida biológica, estos binomios, callejones de salida del pensamiento de hoy en los que nos hemos metido, tenemos que volver a escuchar las discusiones de la Antigüedad sobre el cuidado del alma y la existencia humana. Voy a recuperar estos dos temas de escritos de Jan Patočka, anclándolos en su interpretación de Sócrates, el primero en poner énfasis en la idea de responsabilidad humana no solo de su pensamiento sino también de su actuar en el mundo. Argumentaré que el significativo rasgo común, esto es, el cuidado por nuestro propio ser, nuestra existencia, es lo que une las reflexiones de Patočka sobre el cuidado del alma y el cuidado de la exitencia humana. Mientras que, según Patočka, la noción del cuidado del alma ha sido desplazada de la reflexión filosófica por la empresa científica moderna, la idea de la existencia humana, a pesar de lo problemático que puede resultar desde un punto de vista científi-co, todavía forma parte de nuestra experiencia.

scholarly journals The Igbo-African Conceptualization of Death as a Journey and Not a Destination

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
Ignatius Nnaemeka Onwuatuegwu
Keyword(s):  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Single Individual ◽  
Philosophical Reflection ◽  
Individual Person ◽  
Pass Through

The issue of death has engaged many thinkers in almost every epoch or era. More so, different philosophers of various cultures have varied conceptions of death as well as rendering differing definitions and interpretations of the concept. Heidegger, for instance, sees man as a being destined to die and, therefore, man lives towards death. Death, simply put in that line of thought, therefore, is the primary purpose or destination of man on earth. This idea renders everything man does on earth as a venture in futility. Nevertheless, man is a being unto immortality. Death from the Igbo-African ontological point of view is but only a vehicle with which man is conveyed to immortality. It is an unavoidable path which every single individual person must unavoidably pass through if one is to be translated and transformed into immortality. The writer in the work resorted simply to the methodological approach of expository and philosophical reflection to accomplish the goal of the study. Invariably, the conclusion that death is, therefore, not a destination but a journey is drawn.

Wallace Stevens's Point of View

PMLA ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 130 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-68
Author(s):  
Joshua Kotin
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Philosophical Problem ◽  
Experimental Poetry ◽  
Central Topic ◽  
Potential Source ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Secular World ◽  
Critical Approaches

“The earth, for us, is flat and bare. / … Poetry // Exceeding music must take the place / Of empty heaven and its hymns… Such claims saturate Wallace Stevens's work: poetry, Stevens affirms and reaffirms, is a potential source of value in a secular world. This essay tracks his attempts to realize this potential—to write a poem that would satisfy his metaphysical need. His work is relentlessly self-critical and experimental, and over his career he develops extravagant (and ultimately hermetic) responses to a stubborn philosophical problem. My aim is to reframe critical approaches to a central topic in Stevens's poetry and to re-evaluate his relation to philosophy. In the process, I hope to suggest answers to more general questions: What is experimental poetry? How do poets think in verse? Why do poets write difficult poems? What makes a poem difficult in the first place?

A Spanish Play on the Battle of Pavia (1525)

PMLA ◽  
1930 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 516-531
Author(s):  
Joseph E. Gillet
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Title Page ◽  
The Other ◽  
External Appearance ◽  
Left Group ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Right ◽  
A Performance

The invasion of Italy by Charles VIII in 1494 became, shortly after, the subject of an égloga by Francisco de Madrid, and the peace of Cambray in 1529, which, it was fondly hoped, would end the Franco-Spanish wars in Italy, was celebrated dramatically by Hernán López de Yanguas. The battle of Pavia (Feb. 24, 1525), falling between these two events and marking the culmination of the struggle, is discussed, from the Spanish point of view, naturally, in the present little play which has not thus far been noticed by the students of early Spanish drama. Like the other two it is a festival-play, combining with a political preoccupation the bucolic tone of the dramatic égloga, a type of which the origin may well be the fifth égloga of Juan del Encina “adonde se introducen cuatro pastores, . . . . y primero Beneito entró en la sala adonde el Duque y Duquesa estaban, y comenzó mucho á dolerse y acuitarse porque se sonaba que el Duque, su señor, se habia de partir á la guerra de Francia; . . . . y despues llamaron á Pedruelo, el cual les dió nuevas de paz. . . . .” The play is short, however, and although possibly intended for a performance or actually performed, it is close, both in subject-matter and external appearance, to the news-sheets in ballad-form which were fairly common at the time. The print which is here reproduced formerly belonged to D. Pascual de Gayangos, and is now in the Biblioteca Nacional, in Madrid. It seems to have been mentioned only by Gallardo. On its title-page a vignette represents a battle fought under massive city- or castle-walls by knights in full armour, on foot, some wielding swords, some daggers, several carrying shields, one of which, on the right, is painted with a large human countenance. In the left group of four warriors one has already fallen, pierced by a sword. Behind the right group of three may be distinguished a throng of helmeted figures in a thicket of tall lances.

Piaget's Genetic Epistemology and the Problem of Truth

Dialogue ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 501-512
Author(s):  
Gary F. Greif
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Exact Algorithm ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Objective Knowledge ◽  
Heuristic Function ◽  
Genetic Epistemology ◽  
Philosophical Reflection

Piaget's work represents, f?om his own point of view, not only a study of intelligence, but a remedy for philosophical studies of the same subject matter. Philosophy in general, according to Piaget, “does not give us knowledge, as it lacks methods of verification”, that is, it does not give knowledge of anything except the personality of the philosopher “sim-ply meditating in his study by the light of his own reason”. Philosophical reflection can serve a heuristic function, but cannot yield objective knowledge, of truth. Piaget succinctly states this crucial methodologicalposition as follows:Although speculative reflection is a fertile and even necessary heuristic introduction to all inquiry, it can only lead to the elaboration of hypotheses, as sweeping as you like, to be sure, but as long as one does not seek verification by a group of facts established experimentally or by a deduction conforming to an exact algorithm (as in logic), the criterion of truth can only remain subjective, in the manner of an intuitive satisfaction, of “self-evidence,” etc.

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