Beyond the limits of thought

• Autor(a) principal: Evnine, Simon
• Data de Publicação: 1997
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Manuscrito (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/manuscrito/article/view/8669341
• topic: Resenha-Lógica; Resenha-Limite; Resenha-Filosofia da lógica

Graham Priest's excellent and thought-provoking new book, Beyond the of Thought, studies the interaction be ween themes. The first theme that there thought the second there be contradictions that are true. connection between ideas is expressed Wittgenstein's remark from the introduction Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: order to able draw limit to thought, we should have to both sides the limit think able". On the one hand there are excellent reasons for suppos that there are limits what we, finite and limited crea tures, can think On other hand, attempts say what these limits are almost invariably up contravening the very limits that being For example, Kant drew distinc tion phenomenal world, partly the construct of human thought, and hence graspable by thought, and the is in which thought cannot have access to. But his claim that nothing can be said about the noumenal itself says something about the noumenal and hence contradicts Kant’s claim that the noumenal cannot be conceived of.