COGNITIVE CONCEPT «KNOWLEDGE» IN THE ENGLISH LINGUISTIC WORLD PICTURE

The article takes its cue from Olivier Rey's recent book Une question de taille (a question of size) and develops the idea of humanity ‘losing its measure, or scale’ in the context of contemporary ecological catastrophe. It seems true that the current level of global threats, from climate change to asteroids, has produced a culture of ambient ‘species angst’ living in more or less constant fear about the survival of the ‘human race’, biodiversity, the planet, the solar system. This indeed means that the idea of a cosmos and a cosmology may no longer be an adequate ‘measurement’ for scaling the so far inconceivable, namely a thoroughly postanthropocentric world picture. The question of scale is thus shown to be connected to the necessity of developing a new sense of proportion, an eco-logic that would do justice to both, things human and nonhuman. Through a reading of the recent science fiction film Interstellar, this article aims to illustrate the dilemma and the resulting stalemate between two contemporary ‘alternatives’ that inform the film: does humanity's future lie in self-abandoning or in self-surpassing, in investing in conservation or in exoplanets? The article puts forward a critique of both of these ‘ecologics’ and instead shows how they depend on a dubious attempt by humans to ‘argue themselves out of the picture’, while leaving their anthropocentric premises more or less intact.

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LIFE OF A CHILD in the adults’ memories Book review: Ilyina E. N., Komissarova T. G. Language world picture of the Vologda peasant: in 2 parts. Part 2. Childhood. Vologda: Vologodskii gosudarstvennyi universitet, 2019. 176 p. ISBN 978-5-87851-858-1; 978-5-87851-856-7

Cherepovets State University Bulletin ◽

10.23859/1994-0637-2020-2-95-19 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2 (95) ◽

pp. 220-223

Author(s):

Nataliya Volkova

Keyword(s):

World Picture

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Folklore and Mythological Symbolism of Lunar Images in the Poetry of Vasyl Holoborodko

The Journal of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Series "Philology" ◽

10.26565/2227-1864-2019-83-17 ◽

2019 ◽

Keyword(s):

Fairy Tales ◽

Personal Experience ◽

Emotional State ◽

The Moon ◽

World Culture ◽

World Picture ◽

Individual Perception

The article considers the interpretation of the lunar symbols of V. Goloborodko's poetry in the folklore and mythological context. The poetry of this representative of the Kyiv School is analyzed in line with mythological representations of both world culture and ethno-national mental principles. The mythological thinking of the artist is represented through the verbal poetical system of images, axiology and ontology concepts, etc. The article establishes that, in the interpretation of the lunar mythology, V. Holoborodko refers to fairy tales, fantasy elements, folk symbols, magical and ritual actions, transfigurative metamorphoses, etc. The simile metaphors in the author's artistic texts are decoded through explanations of the author's individual cosmology. It is determined that the lunar symbols in the poetry of the "Kyiv man" are capable of transforming into objects, can float in water, magically affect nature and man, health and vigor, interact with spirits, dryads, mermaids, transform into a sensual image. In the poems by V. Golobolrodko, the symbol of the Moon is used in the texts that are stylized as folklore (fairy tales, legends, rituals, spells, etc.). Irrational perception of the image of the Night Orb becomes the basis for modeling the myth-poetic world picture of the representative of the Kiev School of Poetry. The paper proves that the myth-making of any writer is implemented through the ethno-mental foundations of the worldview, the archaic genomes of humanity, folk-poetic components, the collective subconscious and the empirical personal experience of the artist. Particular sensual images in poetic works operate in line with ancient ideas and beliefs, analytical and visual cogitative process, individual perception of concepts and the surrounding reality, specific emotional state. Lunar symbols in the poetry of V. Holoborodko are interpreted in conjunction with other verbal poetic images traditionally inherent in Ukrainian folklore.

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REFLECTION OF THE CONCEPT “KNOWLEDGE” USED IN PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS IN ENGLISH AND KYRGYZ WORLD VIEW

Vestnik Bishkek Humanities University ◽

10.35254/bhu.2019.49.28 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 9-11

Author(s):

Zhusupbek kyzy Aida

Keyword(s):

Comparative Analysis ◽

Knowledge Translation ◽

Cultural Diversity ◽

Key Words ◽

World View ◽

Concept Knowledge ◽

Key Concepts

Abstract. Thе article aims at researching the concept “knowledge” used in phraseological units which is one of the key concepts in Кyrgyz and English world view. The comparative analysis of the concept “knowledge” in Kyrgyz and English linguistic world view reveals differences and similarities in its content. In addition, the research also shows that Kyrgyz phraseological units differ a lot from the English due to several particular features like cultural diversity, language peculiarities and linguistic world view. Various examples related to the concept “knowledge” are used demonstrating the difficulties in translation and the differences in meaning of the concept “knowledge” in phraseological units in Kyrgyz and English world view. Key words: concept, linguistic world view, phraseological units, idioms, phrase, proverbs and sayings, phraseology, equivalents, knowledge, translation.

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Islam and Tamburlaine’s World‐Picture

10.1002/9781119626282.ch3 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 37-49

Author(s):

John Michael Archer

Keyword(s):

World Picture

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Beyond analogy: A model of bioinspiration for creative design

Artificial intelligence for engineering design analysis and manufacturing ◽

10.1017/s0890060416000044 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 30 (2) ◽

pp. 159-170 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Camila Freitas Salgueiredo ◽

Armand Hatchuel

Keyword(s):

Design Process ◽

Design Theory ◽

Leading Edge ◽

Knowledge Bases ◽

Biologically Inspired ◽

Concept Knowledge ◽

Bioinspired Design ◽

Aerodynamic Properties ◽

Biologically Inspired Design ◽

The Impact

AbstractIs biologically inspired design only an analogical transfer from biology to engineering? Actually, nature does not always bring “hands-on” solutions that can be analogically applied in classic engineering. Then, what are the different operations that are involved in the bioinspiration process and what are the conditions allowing this process to produce a bioinspired design? In this paper, we model the whole design process in which bioinspiration is only one element. To build this model, we use a general design theory, concept–knowledge theory, because it allows one to capture analogy as well as all other knowledge changes that lead to the design of a bioinspired solution. We ground this model on well-described examples of biologically inspired designs available in the scientific literature. These examples include Flectofin®, a hingeless flapping mechanism conceived for façade shading, and WhalePower technology, the introduction of bumps on the leading edge of airfoils to improve aerodynamic properties. Our modeling disentangles the analogical aspects of the biologically inspired design process, and highlights the expansions occurring in both knowledge bases, scientific (nonbiological) and biological, as well as the impact of these expansions in the generation of new concepts (concept partitioning). This model also shows that bioinspired design requires a special form of collaboration between engineers and biologists. Contrasting with the classic one-way transfer between biology and engineering that is assumed in the literature, the concept–knowledge framework shows that these collaborations must be “mutually inspirational” because both biological and engineering knowledge expansions are needed to reach a novel solution.

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The Pre-Socratic World-Picture

Harvard Theological Review ◽

10.1017/s0017816000020745 ◽

1952 ◽

Vol 45 (2) ◽

pp. 87-104 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

W. K. C. Guthrie

Keyword(s):

Religious Thought ◽

World Picture ◽

The World ◽

Long Time ◽

The Way

I recently became aware that I had for a long time entertained certain preconceptions about the way in which Presocratic thinkers saw the world, without ever having seriously considered the evidence on which my belief was based. This I have now tried to do, with the results which are set forth in this paper. Since in any case it will deal, in a fairly general way, with problems concerning the interaction of philosophical and religious thought in early Greece, I hope it will have a certain interest, whether or not its readers agree with the thesis put forward. The perennial fascination of that topic has been enhanced in recent years by the discussion provoked by Werner Jaeger's book on The Theology of the Early Greek Philosophers, from which I take this sentence as a kind of text for my own reflections: “Though philosophy means death to the old gods, it is itself religion.”

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