Jean Cavailles: Sur La Logique Et La Theorie de la Science (Bibliothèque Des Textes Philosophiques - Poche)

Urbanomic/Sequence Press

by G Bachelard, Jan Sebestik (Afterword), Jean Cavaillès

L'abstraction qui donne le logique etant radicale tombe dans le vide. Ni du cote matiere, puisqu'elle porte sur l'indefini tout objet, ni du cote forme elle ne s'accroche a une qualification positive. Comment est possible une science qui ne dispose que des notions unite, pluralite et representation? Que tirer de l'exigence d'accord de la pensee avec elle meme sinon l'eternelle repetition? Pour que l'accord revetit un sens plein, il faudrait qu'il y eut au moins une differenciation a l'interieur de la pensee, que l'occasion de desaccord possedat deja un contenu, mais la logique serait alors logique transcendantale ou dialectique . Jean Cavailles

Genres: Philosophy, Logic, Mathematics, Science, Nonfiction

160 pages, Pocket Book

First published January 1, 1947

Reviews

[michal k-c · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mathematics is to Cavaillès what oil is to Negarestani, I will not be elaborating on this point here. Big shouts to Sequence Press for mailing the advanced copy

[Filip Wijnings · Rating 4 out of 5]

Snap er geen jota van maar enorm boeiend, mocht ik oprecht geïnteresseerd zijn in Franse neokantiaanse epistemologen uit het midden van de 20ste eeuw, zou ik het meteen opnieuw lezen :))

[Mariam Rawwas · Rating 5 out of 5]

The explicit target of this missive may be "phenomenology" (Cavaillès has Husserl in mind), but it seems like the real target is neo-Kantianism, which Cavaillès seeks to replace with a Hegelianism (the reference is, vaguely, to "dialectics"). Instead of a "formalism" (really, a nominalism or logical positivism) which sees invariance in structure either in consciousness or in logic itself, Cavaillès seeks to find it in the structure of reality itself, not through a "correlationism" but through a genuine dialectics.

[vr reads · Rating 4 out of 5]

short enough to read within a single delirium, dense enough to read every page over & over & over. perfect for light conversation with family around the holidays, perfect for crazy math people.

"If transcendental logic truly grounds logic then there is no absolute logic (...) If there is an absolute logic it can draw its authority only from itself; it is not transcendental."