Uniqueness of style versus plurality of styles: in terms of these aesthetic categories one of the most important differences between the recent past and the present can be described. This difference manifests itself in all spheres of life - in fashion, in everyday life, in the arts, in science. What is of interest for my purposes in this book are its manifestations in the processes of con cept formation as they occur in the humanities, broadly conceived. Here the following methodological approaches seem to dominate the scene. 1. A tendency to apply semiotic concepts in various fields of research. 2. Attempts to introduce metrical concepts and measurement, even into disciplines tra ditionally considered as unamenable to mathematical treatment, like aesthetics and theory of art. 3. Efforts to fmd ways of formulating empirically testable, operational criteria for the application of concepts, especially concepts which refer to objects directly not observable, like dispositions, attitudes, character or personality traits. Care is also taken to take advantage of the conceptual apparatus of methodology to express problems in the humanities with the highest possible degree of clarity and precision. 4. Analysis of the p~rsuasive function oflanguage and its possible uses in science and in everyday life. The above tendencies are present in this book. It is divided into two parts: I. Methods of Concept Formation, and II. Applications. In the first part some general methods of concept formation are presented and their merits discussed.
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Tadeusz Pawłowski

Jaakko Hintikka

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Synthese library, v. 144, Dordrecht, Holland ; Boston : Hingham, MA, ©1980

Springer Nature, Dordrecht, 2012

Netherlands, Netherlands

Oct 13, 2011

1980, 2012

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Source title: Concept Formation in the Humanities and the Social Sciences (Synthese Library)

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Metrical Concepts and Measurement in the Humanities....Pages 3-22
Concepts with Family Meanings in the Humanities....Pages 23-54
Persuasive Function of Language....Pages 55-73
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
Informational Aesthetics....Pages 77-90
The Concept of Kitsch....Pages 91-111
The Concept of Happening....Pages 112-143
Interpretation of Art Works....Pages 144-161
Beauty and its Socio-Psychological Determinants....Pages 162-177
The Concept of Indicator in The Social Sciences....Pages 181-196
Semiotic Theory of Culture....Pages 197-203
Theory of Questions and its Applications in the Social Sciences....Pages 204-220
Back Matter....Pages 221-236

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