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The Problem of the Negation of the Conditional

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Miguel López-Astorga

Institute of Humanistic Studies “Juan Ignacio Molina”, University of Talca, Chile. Email address: milopez@utalca.cl

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v8n4.04

Received August 25, 2016; Revised December 16, 2016; Accepted December 30, 2016; Published January 14, 2017

Abstract

People usually seem to negate the conditional in a different way as it is provided by standard logic. Both contemporary experimental results and texts coming from ancient sources appear to demonstrate that individuals tend not to negate the conditionals in entirety, but only their consequents. Obviously, this can lead one to think that there is no relationship between standard logic and human language and reasoning. However, in this paper, I try to show that, in spite of the mentioned results and texts, it is possible to continue to accept that there are certain links between systems such as that of Gentzen and the way people often negate the conditionals. That way is not, in many cases, exactly the one required by standard logic, but it is not absolutely inconsistent with the latter either.

Keywords: conditional; logical form; negation; standard logic; syntax

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Bachelard, Cassirer and Early Interdisciplinary Humanities

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Maria-Ana Tupan

Prof. Dr. Habil., Philology, Doctoral School, Department of Philology and History, Alba Iulia University, Alba Iulia, Romania. Email: m_tupan@yahoo.com

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v8n4.03

Received November 19, 2016; Revised December 15, 2016; Accepted December 30, 2016; Published January 14, 2017

Abstract

Interdisciplinarity is “the ideal entry point into one of today’s most heated critical debates” reads the back blurb of the book published by Joe Moran at the beginning of the twenty-first century (Routledge, 2002). How old was actually the “New Critical Idiom” in the philosophy of cultural representation is the question the present paper is trying to answer.  We are travelling back in time to the point where aesthetics, poetics or art theory extended to include domains that Immanuel Kant had placed on the other side of the disciplinary divide: physics, algebra, geometry. The rise of a meta theory for disciplinary interfaces is related to the writings of Gaston Bachelard and Ernst Cassirer, who were sensitive to radical shifts in contemporary thought: the former responded to the rise of postformal thought (the logique du contradictoire, or polyvalent logic, informing the quantum superposition of states), while the latter took over from Felix Klein’s invariant theory the model of a unified frame for symbolic representation which rendered possible correlations across disciplinary fields and the coming together of the multiple languages of mythology, religion, science and art.

Keywords:  Interdisciplinarity, the New Critical Idiom, cultural representation, disciplinary reconfiguration, postformal thought.

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Barnett Newman, Gandhi, and the Aesthetics of Nonviolence

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Stephanie Chadwick

Assistant Professor, Art History, Department of Art, College of Fine Arts and Communications, Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas. Email: schadwick2@lamar.edu

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v8n4.02

Received November 19, 2016; Revised November 25, 2016; Accepted December 15, 2016; Published January 14, 2017

Abstract

Taking the painting Be I by famous American Abstract Expressionist painter Barnett Newman as a starting point, this paper explores relationships between Mohandas K. Gandhi’s aesthetic life and an emerging aesthetic of nonviolence in the post WWII era. A nonviolent aesthetic is considered in the painting and in relation to two key photographs featured in the exhibition “Experiments with Truth: Gandhi and Images of Nonviolence” at the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas from October 3, 2014 – February 1, 2015: Margaret Bourke-White’s now iconic photograph of Gandhi Spinning and an anonymous photograph of Gandhi’s Earthly Belongings published in a 1954 book by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India, 1954.

 Keywords: Gandhi, Newman, Bourke-White, aesthetics, asceticism, nonviolence

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