Dianoia

Summary

Dominique Pagani links dianoia to Plato and presents it as discursive knowledge, that is, mediate knowledge: it proceeds by way of reasoning1. He describes it as hypothetico-deductive, on the mathematical model of "if, then". It starts from hypotheses and moves toward conclusions without going back up to the unhypothetical principle. For him, its truth rests on coherence: statements follow one another without contradicting each other2, and a proposition is held to be true because it does not contradict what has been established before3. He places dianoia between sensation and dialectic: it is the level at which things are named and concepts are produced4. He returns to this notion in varied contexts, from Kant to Nerval, then in connection with the sciences of history and the "springtime of peoples". From one session to the next, the characterization stays the same.

1. 1#3.5 From Ulysses to Daedalus1 Aug 2017 · 27:52
2. 2#4.9 Angélique (by Nerval)14 Jun 2018 · 25:07
3. 3A springtime of the peoples?18 Mar 2023 · 51:47
4. 4#9.12 How can sciences of history be real?14 Jan 2021 · 16:16

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