Abstract Concept Formation in Archaic Chinese Script Forms: Some Humboldtian Perspectives

2011 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 409-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tze-wan Kwan 關子尹
Keyword(s):  
Concept Formation ◽  
Chinese Script ◽  
Abstract Concept ◽  
Archaic Chinese

From (Theogonic) Mythos to (Poetic) Logos: Reading Pindar’s Genealogical Metaphors after Freidenberg

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-77
Author(s):  
Boris Maslov
Keyword(s):  
Concept Formation ◽  
Abstract Concept ◽  
Greek Literature ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Philosophical Concept ◽  
Philosophical Discourse ◽  
Greek Thought ◽  
Transitional Phenomenon ◽  
Important Means ◽  
Poetic Metaphor

Abstract This paper analyzes the use of kinship categories to refer to personified (hypostasized) concepts in Ancient Greek literature, with particular emphasis on Pindar. This device serves to include an abstract concept within a genealogy that is dominated by divinities or quasi-religious entities. Comparing the use of this device in Hesiod, Plato, and Pindar, I suggest that, before the emergence of properly analytic categories within the philosophical discourse, genealogical metaphor served as the most important means of concept formation available to Ancient Greeks. In particular, Pindar’s use of genealogical metaphors points to a productive encounter between image and concept. In this context, I review the neglected work of the Soviet Classicist Olga Freidenberg, who put forward a theory of poetic metaphor as a transitional phenomenon between mythological image and philosophical concept, and discuss the differences between the method of historical poetics employed by Freidenberg and the idealist paradigm that informs the better known work by Hermann Fränkel, Bruno Snell, and Wilhelm Nestle on the shift from “mythos” to “logos” in early Greek thought and literature.

On the Fourfold Root of the Notion of “Being” in Chinese Language and Script

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 212-229
Author(s):  
Tze-Wan Kwan
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Language ◽  
Chinese Script ◽  
Chinese Characters ◽  
Archaic Chinese

One might think that the European verb “to be” can find no counterpart in archaic Chinese. This paper starts with two sidetracks on Heidegger and Benveniste, which prepare us a broader horizon in dealing with the notion of “being.” It is indeed conceivable in the four Chinese characters shi 是, zai 在, cun 存 and you 有. These notions are discussed with the help of corresponding archaic Chinese script tokens. This so-called fourfold root explains why it is precisely these characters that have become the most widely used Chinese translations for the notion of “being.”

Observing Response, Set-Size, and Abstract-Concept Formation by Pigeons

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly A. Schmidtke ◽  
Bradley R. Sturz ◽  
Jeffrey S. Katz ◽  
Anthony A. Wright
Keyword(s):  
Concept Formation ◽  
Abstract Concept ◽  
Set Size ◽  
Response Set ◽  
Observing Response

A Cognitive-Linguistic Intervention Program: Basic Concept Formation Level

1977 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-32
Author(s):  
Gerald E. Chappell
Keyword(s):  
Basic Concept ◽  
Concept Formation ◽  
Intervention Program ◽  
Cognitive Linguistic ◽  
Basic Concepts ◽  
Linguistic Skills ◽  
Linguistic Intervention

Test-teach questioning is a strategy that can be used to help children develop basic concepts. It fosters the use of multisensory exploration and discovery in learning which leads to the development of cognitive-linguistic skills. This article outlines some of the theoretical bases for this approach and indicates possibilities for their applications in child-clinician transactions.

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