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The semiotics of Charles S. Peirce is conceived as an essential part of a comprehensive philosophical outlook. The study of signs is carried on for its bearing on the knowledge of reality; therefore the relation of signs to objects is the core concern of Peirce?s semiotics. This…
The book is devoted to the study of the sign-object relation in the semiotics of Charles Peirce. It puts this issue in the context of Peirce's philosophy of knowledge and of reality and individuates the final causality as the foundation of the semiotic relation, which gains its …
Traditional theoria -- Literary and philosophical texts on theoria -- Plato's contribution to theoria -- Aristotle's conception of theoria -- Theoria and its objects -- The value of theoria.
To scholars of ancient philosophy, theoria denotes abstract thinking, with both Plato and Aristotle employing the term to signify philosophical contemplation. Yet it is surprising for some to find an earlier, traditional meaning referring to travel to festivals and shrines. In a…
"To scholars of ancient philosophy, theoria denotes abstract thinking, with both Plato and Aristotle employing the term to signify philosophical contemplation. Yet it is surprising for some to find an earlier, traditional meaning referring to travel to festivals and shrines. In …
Ward investigates the conceptual connections between two meanings of theoria in ancient Greece: attendance at religious festivals and philosophical contemplation.
Sanskrit Debate: Vasubandhu's 'Vīmśatikā' Versus Kumārila's 'Nirālambanavāda' illustrates the rules and regulations of classical Indian debate literature (pramānaśāstra) by introducing new translations of two Sanskrit texts composed in antithesis to each other's tradition of tho…
Sanskrit Debate: Vasubandhu's ';Vimsatika' Versus Kumarila's ';Niralambanavada' illustrates the rules and regulations of classical Indian debate literature (pramanasastra) by introducing new translations of two Sanskrit texts composed in antithesis to each other's tradition of t…
Sanskrit Debate: Vasubandhu's 'Vīmśatikā' Versus Kumārila's 'Nirālambanavāda' illustrates the rules and regulations of classical Indian debate literature (pramānaśāstra) by introducing new translations of two Sanskrit texts composed in antithesis to each other's tradition of tho…
"Science fiction is filled with spacecraft. And in the real world, eager industrialists race to develop new vehicles to travel beyond Earth's atmosphere. Space travel can seem like a waste of resources or like human destiny. But what are spacecraft, and just what can they teach …
"Science fiction is filled with spacecraft. And in the real world, eager industrialists race to develop new vehicles to travel beyond Earth's atmosphere. Space travel can seem like a waste of resources or like human destiny. But what are spacecraft, and just what can they teach …
Science fiction is filled with spacecraft. And in the real world, eager industrialists race to develop new vehicles to travel beyond Earth's atmosphere. Space travel can seem like a waste of resources or like human destiny. But what are spacecraft, and just what can they teach u…