Around 1898, Peirce wrote that an idea ‘can be roughly compared to a composite photograph’. (CP 7... more Around 1898, Peirce wrote that an idea ‘can be roughly compared to a composite photograph’. (CP 7.498) [1] A few years later, he urged that the predicate “yellow” refers to ‘a sort of composite photograph of all the yellows I have seen.’ (CP 7.634) Indeed, a predicate expression ‘only conveys its signification by exciting in the mind some image, or, as it were, a composite photograph of images.’ (CP 2.317) This metaphor is employed on many occasions – I have found many instances dating from 1893 (CP 2.435ff) until 1908. Moreover it is not applied only to simple sensory ideas such yellow: Peirce’s own examples include moral ideals, and he went so far as to claim that all the operations of the intellect consist in taking ‘composite photographs of quale consciousness’. (CP 6.233). (...) The metaphor of a composite photograph, I shall suggest, serves these two roles. It makes vivid some of the requirements for an adequate defence of pragmatism, and it enables Peirce to acknowledge some links between his system of architectonic and Kant’s.
Forma Lógica: Una interpretación de Kant y Wittgenstein, 2016
A continuación se presenta una interpretación de la forma lógica presentada por Wittgenstein en e... more A continuación se presenta una interpretación de la forma lógica presentada por Wittgenstein en el Tractatus, en comparación con la función lógica del juicio presentada por Kant en la Crítica de la Razón Pura. También se presenta un ejemplo de la manera de operar de la forma lógica. Lo anterior con el fin de ofrecer una aclaración al tema y una interpretación epistemológica diferente de la tradicionalmente aceptada sobre los textos mencionados de estos autores, a saber, la concepción representacionalista de la figura en Wittgenstein y la dualidad sujeto-objeto que parece persistir desde Descartes en Kant. Esta interpretación apunta a un monismo lógico. Palabras clave: Kant, Wittgenstein, Forma Lógica, Idealismo Trascendental, Realismo Empírico.
Around 1898, Peirce wrote that an idea ‘can be roughly compared to a composite photograph’. (CP 7... more Around 1898, Peirce wrote that an idea ‘can be roughly compared to a composite photograph’. (CP 7.498) [1] A few years later, he urged that the predicate “yellow” refers to ‘a sort of composite photograph of all the yellows I have seen.’ (CP 7.634) Indeed, a predicate expression ‘only conveys its signification by exciting in the mind some image, or, as it were, a composite photograph of images.’ (CP 2.317) This metaphor is employed on many occasions – I have found many instances dating from 1893 (CP 2.435ff) until 1908. Moreover it is not applied only to simple sensory ideas such yellow: Peirce’s own examples include moral ideals, and he went so far as to claim that all the operations of the intellect consist in taking ‘composite photographs of quale consciousness’. (CP 6.233). (...) The metaphor of a composite photograph, I shall suggest, serves these two roles. It makes vivid some of the requirements for an adequate defence of pragmatism, and it enables Peirce to acknowledge some links between his system of architectonic and Kant’s.
Forma Lógica: Una interpretación de Kant y Wittgenstein, 2016
A continuación se presenta una interpretación de la forma lógica presentada por Wittgenstein en e... more A continuación se presenta una interpretación de la forma lógica presentada por Wittgenstein en el Tractatus, en comparación con la función lógica del juicio presentada por Kant en la Crítica de la Razón Pura. También se presenta un ejemplo de la manera de operar de la forma lógica. Lo anterior con el fin de ofrecer una aclaración al tema y una interpretación epistemológica diferente de la tradicionalmente aceptada sobre los textos mencionados de estos autores, a saber, la concepción representacionalista de la figura en Wittgenstein y la dualidad sujeto-objeto que parece persistir desde Descartes en Kant. Esta interpretación apunta a un monismo lógico. Palabras clave: Kant, Wittgenstein, Forma Lógica, Idealismo Trascendental, Realismo Empírico.
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The metaphor of a composite photograph, I shall suggest, serves these two roles. It makes vivid some of the requirements for an adequate defence of pragmatism, and it enables Peirce to acknowledge some links between his system of architectonic and Kant’s.
Palabras clave: Kant, Wittgenstein, Forma Lógica, Idealismo Trascendental, Realismo Empírico.
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The metaphor of a composite photograph, I shall suggest, serves these two roles. It makes vivid some of the requirements for an adequate defence of pragmatism, and it enables Peirce to acknowledge some links between his system of architectonic and Kant’s.
Palabras clave: Kant, Wittgenstein, Forma Lógica, Idealismo Trascendental, Realismo Empírico.