Do We Need To Search For The Only True World View?

Author: Havas, Katalin

Source: Foundations of Science, Volume 3, Number 2, November 1998 , pp. 359-373(15)

Publisher: Springer

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Abstract:

It is necessary to take into account that every ontology and also every scientific system draws a picture of the World according to the abstractions and presuppositions which were accepted, consciously or unconsciously, during the construction of the system. That is why Aristotle, Hegel, and the paraconsistent logics gave us different world views. On the basis of contemporary logics, including paraconsistent logics, we can better understand what the objects of the Aristotelian logic are, what are the presuppositions used in it, what are the meanings of its terms and how their meaning was changed when used in other theories.

Keywords: Aristotle; dialectic; Hegel; ontology; paraconsistent logics; presupposition

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1009638410512

Affiliations: 1: Email: kenese@isis.elte.hu

Publication date: 1998-11-01