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Symbolic Forms: Cassirer and Santayana

Tulane Studies in Philosophy, 1963
No contribution whatever towards advancing our knowledge with regard to any particular theory of symbolic forms will be attempted in the following pages. Instead, departing from a few definitions acceptable though probably not sufficient to most philosophers, a minimal case for the symbolic character of knowledge will be made and distinguished from the
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Hilbert's Axiomatics as ‘Symbolic Form’?

Perspectives on Science, 2014
According to Ernst Cassirer, symbolic forms “are not different modes in which an independent reality manifests itself to the human spirit but roads which the spirit proceeds towards its objectivization, i.e., its self-revelation” (1923, p. 78). Can Hilbert's axiomatics be viewed as a symbolic form?
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Klein and Cassirer Symbol and Symbolic Form

The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 2015
ABSTRACT In Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra, Jacob Klein contrasts ancient Greek philosophy's direct engagement with things through arithmetic with the ancient science of numeric calculation, logistic. By chronicling the later development of logistic, by means of increasing symbolization, ultimately into algebra, he ...
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Archetypes as Symbolic Forms

Journal of Analytical Psychology, 1998
In Jung's psychology, archetypes are biologically inherited supra‐individual predispositions of the collective unconscious, and in this paper this controversial theory of archetypes is evaluated in the context of Ernst Cassirer's philosophy of symbolic forms.
Petteri Pietikäinen
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History As Symbolic Form

Idealistic Studies, 2004
Cassirer counts history as a symbolic form in his list that includes myth, religion, language, art, and science, but his discussion of history is confined to a chapter in An Essay on Man. A more complete understanding requires attention to a year-long seminar he taught at Yale on "The Philosophy of History" in 1941-1942. The partially unpublished texts
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Database as Symbolic Form

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 1999
After the novel, and subsequently cinema, privileged narrative as the key form of cultural expression of the modern age, the computer age introduces its correlate - database. Many new media objects do not tell stories; they don't have a beginning or end; in fact, they don't have any development, thematically, formally or otherwise which would organise ...
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