The Architectonics of Meaning: Foundations of the New Pluralism

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University of Chicago Press, 1993 M06 15 - 205 páginas
The Architectonics of Meaning is a lucid demonstration of the purposes, methods, and implications of philosophical semantics that both supports and builds on Richard McKeon's and other noted pluralists' convictions that multiple philosophical approaches are viable. Watson ingeniously explores ways to systematize these approaches, and the result is a well-structured instrument for understanding texts. This book exemplifies both general and particular aspects of systematic pluralism, reorienting our understanding of the realms of knowing, doing, and making.
 

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Preface
xiii
Archic Variables
1
2 Ontic Epistemic and Semantic Epochs
5
3 Reciprocal Priority
9
4 The Problem of Archic Variables
11
Perspective
15
1 Personal Perspectives
16
2 Objective Perspectives
22
Method
71
1 Agonistic Methods
73
2 Logistic Methods
78
3 Dialectical Methods
84
4 Problematic Methods
91
Principle
101
1 Creative Principles
103
2 Elemental Principles
114

3 Diaphanic Perspectives
27
4 Disciplinary Perspectives
32
Reality
41
1 Existential Realities
42
2 Substrative Realities
50
3 Noumenal Realities
57
4 Essential Realities
61
3 Comprehensive Principles
126
4 Reflexive Principles
136
Archic Analysis
151
2 Interpretation of Texts and of the World
161
3 Historical Interaction of Archic Modes
164
4 The Progress of Awareness
166
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Walter Watson is professor of philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

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