In his teleological antinomy in the Dialectic of the Critique of the Teleological Power of Judgment, Kant presents two competing views of the explanatory power of causal mechanism for a science of origins. Kant expresses both the positive (thesis) view and the negative (antithesis) view in the guise of merely “regulative principles for the reflecting power of judgment”. The regulativity of thes...

During the last decade the agenda of local and global politics is heavily marked by the encounter of two powerful currents, namely democracy and political Islam. On the one hand Islam as a religion itself is facing a cultural dialectic between a modern and an authentic form, producing a synthesis which is only to be criticized again by a new radical antithesis. Within that framework political I...

This essay takes as its starting point the resemblance between the historical practice of diplomatic representation and the rhetorical practice of metonymy. The early modern ambassador acted as a substitute abroad for the sovereign who sent him and metonymy describes a comparable replacement—in words—of one thing by another associated thing. Yet metonyms can all too easily become confused with ...

In the pages of this journal Min Hua Jen, Kelvyn Jones and, Ron Johnston recently presented a paper claiming to have evaluated Richard Wilkinson’s hypothesis that social inequality damages the health of populations (Jen et al., 2008). It was an interesting paper with findings not originally recognized in Wilkinson’s hypothesis, but it suffers from one major flaw: the findings are not a direct e...

We show that numerous distinctive concepts of constructive mathematics arise automatically from an "antithesis" translation affine logic into intuitionistic via a Chu/Dialectica construction. This includes apartness relations, complemented subsets, anti-subgroups and anti-ideals, strict non-strict order pairs, cut-valued metrics, spaces. also explain the bifurcation some classical using choice ...

The fears associated with the creation of artificial intelligence and prospects for its use are reflected in search new forms human identity. Hypodynamia, due to development technology, a significant involvement person processes virtual world, bring life hybrid sports - chessboxing combination boxing chess, bodily intellectual practice, personifying different ways thinking: creative, practical ...