The Language of Science: A Study of the Relationship Between Literature and Science in the Perspective of a Hermeneutical Ontology, With a Case Stud (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History)
The Language of Science: A Study of the Relationship Between Literature and Science in the Perspective of a Hermeneutical Ontology, With a Case Stud (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History)
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The existence of a separation between science and literature has long been taken for granted. This study shows that in science language functions in very much the same way as in literature: it is rhetorical in that it persuades readers to the author's point of view, and it is poetical in that with its metaphors and other figures of speech it shapes the experience of author and reader. The separation between science and literature proves to be untenable. This has important ontological implications: science can no longer be considered an action performed by a speaking subject on a mute object. Does the creative role of language in science mean that human beings `create' the world? The author emphatically rejects a conclusion which would degrade nature to mere malleable material at the mercy of human beings. A hermeneutical model for the relationship between knower and known is suggested: creative interaction between reader and text. The reader's responses actualise a text's meaning; in like manner, scientists give their responses to reality by actualising one of many possibilities. The hermeneutical ontology proposed in this book steers away from the rocks of realism and anti-realism.
The Language of Science: A Study of the Relationship Between Literature and Science in the Perspective of a Hermeneutical Ontology, With a Case Stud (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History),Ilse Nina Bulhof,Brill Academic Publishers,9004096442,1809-1882,Darwin, Charles,,Hermeneutics,History,History: World,Interior Design - General,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Literature And Science,On the origin of species,Ontology,Science,Science/Mathematics,Semiotics & Theory,Darwin, Charles
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- The New Home Kit : A Three-Step Guide to the Perfect Room
- The Problem of the Rational Soul in the Thirteenth Century (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History)
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- The Red Jews: Antisemitism in an Apocalyptic Age 1200-1600 (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions)
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- The World in A Room: When Objects Have the Names of Places
- Thomas and Tatian: The Relationship Between the Gospel of Thomas and the Diatessaron (Academia Biblica, 5)
- Treasury of Byzantine Ornament : 255 Motifs from St. Mark's and Ravenna (Pictorial Archive Series)
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