scholarly journals Two Kinds of Logical Impossibility

Noûs ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 795-806 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Sandgren ◽  
Koji Tanaka
Keyword(s):  
Logical Impossibility

The Logical Impossibility of Collision

Philosophy ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 62 (242) ◽  
pp. 509-515 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. David Kline ◽  
Carl A. Matheson
Keyword(s):  
Material Bodies ◽  
Logical Impossibility

Absolutely no one still believes that every physical interactionconsists of material bodies bumping into each other. Those who have tried to work out a completely mechanistic physics have been unable to explain common phenomena like liquidity, gravitation and magnetism. In fact, there is great reason to doubt that such a physics could ever account for attractive forces in general.

“He Liked to Hear the Music of Others”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Hirschmann
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The Past ◽  
Logical Impossibility

Those seeking to understand Bach and his music in the context of his time face an apparently intractable situation: studying Bach's music in reference only to itself seems a logical impossibility. However, relating Bach to his German contemporaries will produce only misunderstandings. This chapter outlines some means for making the situation tractable by identifying the premises required for understanding Bach and his German contemporaries, rather than one or the other. It proposes taking a kind of ethnological perspective on Bach's music and the different cultural webs into which it has been incorporated in the past and in which it is embedded in the present.

scholarly journals Breaking the Mirror: Alain Badiou’s Reading of Jacques Lacan

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jana Ndiaye Berankova
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Lacan ◽  
Sexual Relationship ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One ◽  
Logical Impossibility

In this article, I focus on Alain Badiou’s idiosyncratic interpretation of Jacques Lacan and highlight his conceptual points of divergence with the psychoanalyst. I elaborate on Badiou’s distinction between philosophy, antiphilosophy, and sophistry as well as the notions of sense, ab-sense, and non-sense that he proposed in the book There’s No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship: Two Lessons on Lacan as well as in his seminar on Lacan. Unlike Lacan, who affirmed that philosophy is subject to the fantasy of the One, Badiou claimed that the One exists merely as a result of an operation of counting. In this manner, he contested Lacan’s conviction that philosophy forecloses the real. I argue that Badiou’s main point of divergence with Lacan is centred on the notion of the subject and on the localization of the void in relation to the subject. I also touch upon philosophy’s relation to the symbolic, namely its ability to raise powerlessness to logical impossibility.

scholarly journals Information als Prozess

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 310-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diether Elstner
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Stable States ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Concept Of Information ◽  
Enormous Number ◽  
Logical Impossibility

 A unified definition of the phenomenon information is not possible at present, because of the enormous number of different views. The situation is increased by the 'Capurro‘s trilemma' which postulates the logical impossibility of a unified concept of information. There are two approaches in the literature, which aim to solve the trilemma. The first approach avoids collision with the trilemma through the introduction of a generalized parameter to form rules of language for information systems. The second approach is understood as a draft of a generalized understanding of information within a yet to be developed unified information science. This article presents the approach of understanding information as an instantaneous process, which effects changes in systems. These changes must be captured and reproduced by the organization of the system, otherwise they get lost by fluctuations. Information in this reductionist conception is possible in each system, under the assumption, that it has several stable states, which alternatively may be assumed by the system . The 'Capurro‘s trilemma' is negated.

Autonomy and presupposition in architecture: Lebbeus Woods' Berlin and Sarajevo projects

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-137
Author(s):  
Carolyn Fahey
Keyword(s):  
Ludwig Wittgenstein ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
The Other ◽  
Real Solution ◽  
Theoretical Position ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The People ◽  
Logical Impossibility

The architectural theories of Lebbeus Woods present a number of philosophical problems. Of particular interest in this paper is Woods' thinking about autonomy and self-determinism in architecture. He claims that the architect should ‘recognise his own autonomy’ before ‘designing for other self-determining individuals’. The logical impossibility inherent in the juxtaposition of these claims is investigated with reference to the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein.Wittgenstein provides a critique of metaphysics that is based on a strong valuing of socio-cultural context. Woods, on the other hand, proposes theoretical accounts of architecture that contain the fallacious appeal to autonomy. The appeal, however logically false, is critical to the theoretical position cast in terms of ‘heterarchy’. The appeal also supports the presupposition of society and culture that in turn allows for a sense of architectural solution. In the case of Woods' proposals for Berlin and Sarajevo projects, it is shown that the sense of architectural solution cannot amount to a real solution to the socio-cultural problems facing the people of these war torn cities.

Logical Impossibility

1971 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 166
Author(s):  
Solomon E. Levy
Keyword(s):  
Logical Impossibility

scholarly journals THE GRAND INQUISITOR: THE PATHS OF FREEDOM

2021 ◽  
Vol XII (38) ◽  
pp. 103-121
Author(s):  
Novak Malešević
Keyword(s):  
Acceptable Solution ◽  
The World ◽  
Grand Inquisitor ◽  
The Right ◽  
Logical Impossibility

This paper analyzes the antitheistic argument of Ivan Karamazov in the context of theodicy. We focus on the chapter The Grand Inquisitor, which, as we demonstrate, represents the ultimate argumentative point of Ivan’s "rebellion" against God. Logical impossibility of justifying evil in the world leads Ivan not only to the conclusion that evil is an unerasable mark of God’s mistake appearing while making his creation (man and the world), but also that the basis of that evil is one of the most appreciated human virtues: freedom. After Alyosha introduces Christ (thesis) into an argument on theodicy, as an instance that can and has the right to forgive evil and thus cancel its effects, Ivan responds with his dialectical counterpart (antithesis): The Grand inquisitor. Synthesis in this dialectical struggle, as we demonstrate, does not lead to any logically acceptable solution. On the contrary. We are left with the paradox: freedom has, at the same time, led to theodicy and to an accusation against Christ.

scholarly journals The truth of the prophecy and miracles in the religion philosophy

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (126) ◽  
pp. 326-337
Author(s):  
Leena Muthanna Adnan ◽  
Ehsan Ali Abdul Amir
Keyword(s):  
Natural Law ◽  
Philosophy Of Religion ◽  
Central Question ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Logical Impossibility

      In this research, we have attempted to shed light on one of the main topics dealt with by the philosophy of religion, revelation, prophecy and miracles. I will focus on this research on the most important aspects of the study of contemporary Arab writers: Adib Saab, Sawdust. The central question we will ask is: Is revelation possible? Is prophecy translated and miracles? What is the validity of revelation and prophethood miracles? Are miracles only for prophets? Or else? We find that the writer is difficult to prove the issue of revelation through the statement of the quality of the divine discourse directed to humans from the tongue of God, and on the issue of miracles in the opinion of Adib Saab that miracles (wonders) is only the natural law itself. Al-Khasht agrees with the view that revelation and prophecy can be obtained. There is no logical impossibility in addressing God to His creatures, and if the quality of the speech directed by God differed to His creatures, either in the matter of miracles he goes on to say that miracles are not a creation of natural law, Which is familiar with nature, and while we find Nashar goes to support the issue of revelation, but warns of the need to distinguish between revelation in monotheistic religions and visions of the ruling. As for the issue of miracles, the narration is either a reason to prove the prophecy of a prophet or to prove a wisdom. Miracles are nothing but God's act in nature, and if we do not understand it now we may understand it tomorrow

The Necessity of Private Language: A Conceptual Confusion Latent in Diverse Episodes of the History of Psychology / Potrzeba języka prywatnego: zamieszanie pojęciowe zawarte w różnorodnych wątkach historii psychologii

2014 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
José María Ariso
Keyword(s):  
Internal Consistency ◽  
History Of Psychology ◽  
Private Language ◽  
Psychological Theories ◽  
Private Language Argument ◽  
History Of ◽  
Conceptual Confusion ◽  
Logical Impossibility

AbstractThe present paper aims to show how Wittgenstein’s so-called ‘private language argument’ (PLA) affects diverse psychological theories. To this end, it starts by describing the main lines of the PLA and explaining why the idea of a private language constitutes a logical impossibility. Then, it is shown that the psychological theories of Descartes, Locke, Husserl, James, Fodor and Chomsky presuppose the existence of a private language, so that these theories lack internal consistency. Lastly, it is clarified why PLA, far from turning Wittgenstein into a behaviourist, involves a critique of behaviourism

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