The problem of the creation of the concept and the criticism of the classical theory of the abstraction in Ernest Cassirer’s philosophy

Q3 Arts and Humanities

Sententiae Pub Date : 2023-12-31 DOI:10.31649/sent13.02.003

Nina Dys

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Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of the legitimacy of the transition from logic to ontology in the work of Ernest Cassirer "Substanzbegriff und Funktionsbegriff. Untersuchungen über die Grundfragen der Erkenntniskritik". After analysing some aspects of the classical theory of abstraction (mainly its Aristotelian-Lockean version, as well as Mill's inductive logic), Cassirer reveals a number of problems associated with both the use of this theory in the study of modern sciences and its application to the analysis of the phenomenon of thinking in general. For Cassirer, the classical theory of abstraction leads to paradoxes and difficulties due to the correlation between the volume and content of the concept and the process of generalisation. Cassirer solves these problems by turning to mathematics. The author demonstrates that this text by Cassirer is one of the classic examples of philosophical analysis of the foundations of logic.

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欧内斯特-卡西勒哲学中的概念创造问题和对经典抽象理论的批判

文章主要分析欧内斯特-卡西勒的著作《Substanzbegriff und Funktionsbegriff.Untersuchungen über die Grundfragen der Erkenntniskritik"。在分析了古典抽象理论的某些方面（主要是亚里士多德-洛克的版本以及密尔的归纳逻辑）之后，卡西勒揭示了在现代科学研究中使用这一理论以及将其应用于分析一般思维现象时所遇到的一系列问题。在卡西勒看来，由于概念的数量和内容与概括过程之间的相关性，经典抽象理论导致了悖论和困难。卡西勒通过求助于数学来解决这些问题。作者证明，卡西勒的这篇文字是对逻辑学基础进行哲学分析的经典范例之一。

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