The magical way of certain knowledge acquiring in Pascal's experience

Q3 Arts and Humanities

Sententiae Pub Date : 2023-12-31 DOI:10.31649/sent01.01.051

Maryna Savelieva

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The article interprets Pascal's concept of mathematics from the treatise Of the Geometrical Spirit as a magical way of acquiring true knowledge. The author argues that the initial features that define the magical character of Pascal's mathematics are: (1) the requirement to build the language of geometry on the basis of names corresponding to persons rather than concepts corresponding to objects; (2) the requirement to use a special language for describing names, different from the traditional object language; (3) the understanding of "definition" as the application of names to things. According to the author, the perspective of a name rather than of a concept at the heart of science is explicitly magical because a name is a verbally transformed conscious form of being, embodied into something concrete and aimed at the universal unification of things. This interpretation, on the other hand, assigns to the concept the role of a tool for cognition of names. Understanding a name is a magical path of consciousness through the repeated relating of a concept to a name. Thus, any theorem of geometry will not be seen as a proof, but rather as a partial and situational description of the obviousness of the transcendent.

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帕斯卡尔经验中获取某些知识的神奇方式

文章将帕斯卡尔在《几何精神》一文中提出的数学概念解释为一种获取真知的神奇方法。作者认为，定义帕斯卡尔数学神奇特性的最初特征是(1) 要求在与人相对应的名称而不是与物相对应的概念的基础上建立几何语言；(2) 要求使用一种特殊的语言来描述名称，不同于传统的对象语言；(3) 将 "定义 "理解为将名称应用于事物。作者认为，科学的核心是名称而非概念，这种观点具有明确的魔力，因为名称是一种经过语言转换的有意识的存在形式，体现为具体的东西，旨在实现事物的普遍统一。另一方面，这种解释赋予概念以认知名称的工具的角色。对名称的理解是一条神奇的意识之路，它通过概念与名称的反复关联来实现。因此，几何学的任何定理都不会被视为证明，而是对超验的显而易见性的局部和情景描述。

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期刊介绍： Sententiae is historico-philosophical open access journal. Journal created by Modern philosophy''s research group (Pascalian society). Founded in 2000. Published twice a year, in June and December. Our purpose is to foster the development of a wide gamut of contemporary approaches, active implementation of them into research practice, and establishment of high standards of teaching philosophy basing on the achievements of contemporary history of philosophy. Our key priority is to ensure the empirical substantiation of historico-philosophical conceptions, basing on the criteria of literality, exhaustivity, contextuality and taking into account the existing speculative interpretations. Jean-Luc Marion was the first to formulate this set of criteria in 1998 as the main features of contemporary researches of Descartes''s philosophy. We regard these principles as the methodological background of any substantiated research method in the history of philosophy. Publishing materials on all historico-philosophical topics, we pay special attention to researches in terminology, issues of philosophical translation and untranslatability, manuscript researches (including handwritten heritage of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy professors of ХVІІ–ХVІІІ century), and cover the development of large-scale projects in this area. We also publish new bilingual and commented Ukrainian translations of classical foreign philosophical texts. Among our priorities there is also a coverage of the history of philosophical thought in Ukraine and other Eastern European countries and its relations to the wider cultural context (theology, literature, natural sciences, political ideology etc). The content of each issue is distributed according to Genre Sections and Thematic Headings. Currently there are 10 Genre Sections.

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