It is well known that Franz Brentano was the first to suggest intentionality, property of being about something, as a criterion for demarcating domain mental. He suggested intentionality necessary and sufficient condition something qualify mental event. important, purposes this paper, pay attention fact Brentano’s theory came from within broader philosophical outlook thoroughly dualistic. sough...

It is not usual to think of Fichte as a logician, nor indeed to think of him as leaving a legacy that shaped the subsequent history of symbolic logic. But I argue here that there is such a legacy, and that Fichte formulated an agenda in formal logic that his students (and their students in turn) used to spark a logical revolution. That revolution arguably reached its culmination in the logical ...

Space and time are basic categories of any top-level ontology. They account for fundamental assumptions of the modes of existence of those individuals that are said to be in space and time. The present paper is devoted to GFO-Space, the ontology of space in the General Formal Ontology (GFO). This ontology is introduced by a set of axioms formalized in first-order logic and further elucidated by...

Reductionism and the Development of Knowledge is a collection of well written essays that are all are based on presentations held at the 1999 Annual Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society. Each essay discusses an aspect of the question if human knowledge as expressed in one scientific domain can be translated in terms of another scientific domain. For instance, can psychological phenomena be stat...

Time, events, changes and processes play a major role in conceptual modeling, and in information systems and computer science altogether. Accordingly, the representation of time structures and reasoning about temporal data and knowledge are important theoretical and practical research areas. We assume that a formal representation of temporal knowledge must use as a framework some toplevel ontol...

Abstract Some of the contemporary ethical debates have put in value rational feature feelings because estimative intentionality that is implied them. In this context, some claim emotions a kind perception, as Phenomenology stressed at beginning twentieth century, particularly Max Scheler, by analysing emotional Feeling [ Fühlen ] frame life. order to extend context philosophical debate, and aft...