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Introduction and Discussion of Oruka’s Philosophic Sagacity
The general introduction discusses overarching issues in philosophic sagacity discourse. The chapter adopts the meaning of philosophic sagacity in...
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Metaphysics in Selected African Languages and Proverbs
Though arguments for or against the existence of African metaphysics abound, the view that it exists is endorsed in this chapter. The task is to show...
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Moral Philosophy in Selected African Languages and Proverbs
This chapter looks at different African proverbs underpinning moral philosophy. We have tried to interpret them by first giving their literal...
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Theory of Knowledge in Selected African Languages and Proverbs
In this chapter, theory of knowledge is taken to mean the perception of the origin, nature, reliability, or unreliability of what constitutes a...
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Paradoxes, Intuitionism, and Proof-Theoretic Semantics
In this note, we review paradoxes like Russell’s, the Liar, and Curry’s in the context of intuitionistic logic. One may observe that one cannot blame...
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The Logicality of Equality
The status of the equality predicate as a logical constant is problematic. In the paper we look at the problem from the proof-theoretic standpoint...
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Grundlagen der Arithmetik, §17: Part 1. Frege’s Anticipation of the Deduction Theorem
A running commentary is offered on the first half of Frege’s Grundlagen der Arithmetik, §17, and suggests that Frege anticipated the method of...
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The Validity of Inference and Argument
It has been common in contemporary logic and philosophy of logic to identify the validity of an inference with its conclusion being a (logical)...
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From Metaphor Studies Back to Metaphor
This chapter builds on the previous transdisciplinary discussions of metaphor and revisits the issues raised in the previous chapters, in particular...
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Metaphor as a “Matter of Thought”: Conceptual Metaphor Theory
In this chapter we address Lakoff and Johnson’s (J Philos 77(8):453–486, 1980) Conceptual Metaphor Theory, which, building on the earlier...
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Setting the Stage for Evolutionary Theory
In develo** his theory of evolution, Charles Darwin turned to earlier French ideas, including transformism and Cuvier’s adapted organism....
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The Relational Turn
Formalism is based on the premise that the form of a literary text is constitutive of meaning (or content). Literature is counter-posed to standard...
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Immanent Evolution
Questions of evolution are raised in both literary and biological theory. Biological transformism as a theory emerged at the turn of the nineteenth...
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The Interpreting Organism
Literary formalism attributed meaning to the interactions of devices in the text itself, rejecting extra-textual influences, such as author...
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The Debate: Cuvier and Geoffroy
This chapter outlines pre-Darwinian ideas in early nineteenth-century French biology. In an epistemic shift, a natural history based on continuity...
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An Ecological Context
Literary formalism, incorporating structuralist ideas developed by the Prague Linguistics Circle, proposes that literature is not the effect of an...
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Some Set-Theoretic Reduction Principles
In this article we study several reduction principles in the context of Simpson’s set theory...
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Comments on the Contributions
The contributions to this volume represent a broad range of aspects of proof-theoretic semantics. Some do so in the narrower, and some in the wider...
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Counterfactual Assumptions and Counterfactual Implications
We define intuitionistic subatomic natural deduction systems for reasoning with elementary would-counterfactuals and causal since-subordinator...
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Chapter Thirteen: Godwork
Again we encounter the principle of attaining immunity through contagion. The redemption of Pentecostalist converts rests on seizing the very evil...