Author | Hamburg, Carl H. author |
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Title | Symbol and Reality [electronic resource] : Studies in the philosophy of Ernst Cassirer / by Carl H. Hamburg |
Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1956 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9461-7 |
Descript | 172 p. 1 illus. online resource |
Philosophy โ Midcentury โ Cassirer -- I. Symbol Reality and the History of Philosophy -- Herakleitos โ Plato โ Aristotle โ Descartes โ Leibniz โ Locke โ Berkeley โ Kant -- II. Reality and Symbolic Forms -- The Epistemological Issue โ From a โcritique of reasonโ to a โcritique of cultureโ -- III. The Symbol Concept I -- Definition and Exposition โ Polarity and Correlativity of โmeaningโ (sense) and โsensesโ -- IV. The Symbol Concept II -- Objections and Defense โ The Logical Issue โ The Empirical Issue -- V. The Modalities of the Symbol Concept -- Illustration: The Space Concept on the Expression-level (Myth), the Perceptual level and the Theoretical level of symbolization -- VI. Semiotic and Philosophy of Symbolic Forms -- Areas of agreement โ Issues in semantics and pragmatics -- VII. The Semiotic Range of Philosophy -- The semiotic scheme of formal, empirical and valuational sign-contexts. The case against positivist semiotics -- Bibliographical Notes