Names at the Tip of the Nose

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2021-2) ◽  
pp. 64-67
Author(s):  
Simon Hajdini
Keyword(s):  
Singular Point ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Philosophical Problem ◽  
Concept Of Truth

The problem of naming is not just any philosophical problem but rather central to classical ontology. The latter depends on the notion of names (onomata) as latching onto things (pragmata) in their essential being. As such, the name has traditionally been tied to the concept of truth as adequatio or correspondence between knowledge and being, intellect and thing, or proposition and reality. The author proposes to cast a side-glance at this massive philosophical problem, approaching it from the singular point of view of smells and their striking relationship to language.

scholarly journals Names at the Tip of the Nose

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Hajdini
Keyword(s):  
Singular Point ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Philosophical Problem ◽  
New Materialism ◽  
The Core ◽  
Concept Of Truth

The problem of naming is not just any philosophical problem, but rather one that is central to classical ontology, the latter depending on the notion of names (onomata) as latching onto things (pragmata) in their essential being. As such, the name has traditionally been tied to the concept of truth as adequatio or correspondence between knowledge and being, intellect and thing, or proposition and reality. Accordingly, the problem of naming lies at the core of the issues of objectivity (truth) and fiction, as addressed in this issue of Filozofski vestnik. Probing and circumventing the double trap of “transcendentalism” and “new materialism,” I propose to cast a side-glance at this massive philosophical problem, approaching it from the singular point of view of smells and their striking relationship to language.

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 Semantic-relations taxonomy for knowledge representation

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. e02123
Author(s):  
Lucinéia Souza Maia ◽  
Gercina Ângela de Lima
Keyword(s):  
Singular Point ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Knowledge Representation ◽  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Semantic Relations ◽  
The Subject

Semantic relations in knowledge representation characterizes the association between the concepts of a domain. Concepts are units of knowledge and the relationships that link these units, which gives meaning to the knowledge as represented. In this way, semantic relations allow users to assimilate the purpose of the association between concepts in the presentational context, avoiding misinterpretation of the information, mainly that presented in instruments of knowledge representation.The objective of this paper is to propose a taxonomy of semantic relations that compiles the different approaches on the subject. The methodology applied bibliographic research for theoretical foundation and literature review based on the main bibliographic references on semantic relations. As result, some classifications of semantic relations were found to have been raised by different authors, each offering a singular point of view, which has resulted in a range of discordant terms. To answer this need, a taxonomy was arrived at of sixty-three semantic relations, including a new relation discovered by this study, dubbed here ‘subordinate agent’.

Poststructuralist Deconstruction of Meaning as a Challenge to the Discourse of Theism

1970 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-88
Author(s):  
Janusz Salamon
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Philosophical Tradition ◽  
Common Denominator ◽  
Language Analysis ◽  
Western Philosophical Tradition ◽  
Philosophical Texts ◽  
Concept Of Truth ◽  
The One ◽  
Large Scale Project

Although it became customary to warn against confusing postmodernism with deconstructionism (deconstructionism having narrower focus), it seems plausible to suggest that their central agendas are not dissimilar. Moreover, from the philosophical point of view, it is the idea of the 'deconstruction of meaning' that can be said to constitute the foundation of postmodernism understood here as an intellectual movement. It is true that grounded in the  poststructuralist language analysis, deconstructionism seeks primarily to challenge the attempts inherent in the Western philosophical tradition to establish ultimate meaning in a text. However, as one might have anticipated, the deconstruction of meaning of texts (especially philosophical texts) provided a basis for a large scale project leading to deconstruction of all 'truths', as conceived in the mainstream philosophical tradition. And it did it by questioning the coherence of the very concept of 'truth'. Eclectic as postmodernism is, it can be recognized by the fundamental assumption (with a clearly deconstructionist overtones) that there is no common denominator (like 'nature', 'truth' or 'God') that guarantees the one-ness of the world, or the possibility of objective or neutral thought. This assumption would suffice to make one expect that postmodernism will challenge the very foundations of any metaphysical or religious system of beliefs. And so it does. In this paper I would like to ellucidate just one way this challange may be construed, poiting to the example of Don Cupitt, the leading exponent of the 'antirealist' critique of the discourse of theism.

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?

scholarly journals Chaadaev’s work and its interpretationin the intellectual culture of the Silver Age

2021 ◽  
pp. 68-83
Author(s):  
Olga A. Zhukova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Philosophical Problem ◽  
Russian Philosophy ◽  
Intellectual Culture ◽  
Silver Age ◽  
Cultural Myth

Peter Y. Chaadaev (1794‒1856) is a key figure of Russian philosophy. His experience of theorizing about subjects of the highest order – God, man, knowledge, history, and reli­gion – is still a historical and philosophical problem that does not allow us to fully under­stand the mystery of Chaadaev’s creativity, which has the thickness of a cultural myth. From our point of view, the Chaadaev theme in the history Russian thought is not only the question of what the author of the Philosophical Letters said, in other words, it is not about the explication of his ideas. In our opinion, this is rather a question about the exist­ing discourse about Chaadaev as well as about the perception and understanding of his texts in the context of Russian intellectual and political culture. Philosophers of the Silver Age tried to get close to understanding the deep motives of Chaadaev’s thought. “Chaadaev’s problem” provided Russian intellectuals with a powerful creative impulse prompting them to ask questions about Russia, its history as well as its cultural, civiliza­tional, and political identity.

scholarly journals Truth Without People?

Philosophy ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 72 (279) ◽  
pp. 85-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans-Johann Glock
Keyword(s):  
True Belief ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Consensus Theory ◽  
Concept Of Truth ◽  
Similar Vein ◽  
Independent Reality

There is a venerable tradition according to which the concept of truth is totally independent of human beings, their actions and beliefs, because truth consists in the correspondence of mind-independentpropositions to a mind-independent reality. For want of arespect. One way of doing so is relativism, the idea that whether a belief is true or false depends on the point of view of individuals or communities. A closely related position is a consensus theory of truth, according to which a belief is true if it is held by a (suitably qualified) group of people. In a similar vein, the pragmatist theory maintains that a true belief is one which it is expedient for us to accept.

scholarly journals Hermitian Hamiltonian equivalent to a given non-Hermitian one: manifestation of spectral singularity

2013 ◽  
Vol 371 (1989) ◽  
pp. 20120044 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boris F. Samsonov
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Differential Operator ◽  
Singular Point ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
Scattering Matrix ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Order Differential Operator ◽  
Spectral Singularity ◽  
The Given ◽  
Supersymmetric Structure

One of the simplest non-Hermitian Hamiltonians, first proposed by Schwartz in 1960, that may possess a spectral singularity is analysed from the point of view of the non-Hermitian generalization of quantum mechanics. It is shown that the η operator, being a second-order differential operator, has supersymmetric structure. Asymptotic behaviour of the eigenfunctions of a Hermitian Hamiltonian equivalent to the given non-Hermitian one is found. As a result, the corresponding scattering matrix and cross section are given explicitly. It is demonstrated that the possible presence of a spectral singularity in the spectrum of the non-Hermitian Hamiltonian may be detected as a resonance in the scattering cross section of its Hermitian counterpart. Nevertheless, just at the singular point, the equivalent Hermitian Hamiltonian becomes undetermined.

scholarly journals The category of truth in Bakunin's political and legal theory

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 11-15
Author(s):  
Sergey Demin
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Legal Theory ◽  
Laws Of Nature ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Economic Point ◽  
Economic Liberalism ◽  
Mikhail Bakunin ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Concept Of Truth ◽  
The 19Th Century

The subject of the study is the problem of truth in the political and legal theory of Mikhail Bakunin. The object of the study is the social relations that form different interpretations of the concept of truth in the teachings of M. Bakunin. The author examines in detail the correlation of truth in the works of the anarchist theorist from both a philosophical and a dogmatic point of view. It is analyzed in detail in the doctrine of interspersed jurisprudence from an economic point of view, as well as the theory of knowledge, which was understood by M.Bakunin as phenomena in their pure completeness without any admixture of fantasies, assumptions or other attachments of human consciousness, in which the difference between epistemology and law is manifested. Special attention is paid to M. Bakunin's reflection on the laws of nature and lawmaking. The main conclusions of the study are: - the reason for the utopianism of Bakunin's teaching, in our opinion, is his rejection of the legislative consolidation of the fundamental principles of law, which in turn replaces law with morality. A special contribution of the author to the study of the topic is the conclusion that the most developed economic liberalism in the middle of the 19th century in Russia was in Siberia, which was facilitated by the patronage of the Governor-General of Eastern Siberia Muravyov. The novelty of the research lies in the fact that for the first time M. Bakin's ideas about truth are analyzed not from the point of view of criticism of Marxism-Leninism, but from the philosophical and legal-dogmatic side.

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