Discursive

Summary

Dominique Pagani understands the discursive from its prefix: the "dis-" cuts the one in two and presupposes at least two terms12. Discursive knowledge is mediate: a proposition is true only through the mediation of another. It goes through language, reasoning, words and therefore the concept. It is the world of logos, that of a progressive grasp through successive mediations3. He links it to hypothetico-deductive discourse, which starts from hypotheses and moves towards conclusions according to the principle of identity, without going back up to the anhypothetical principle4. He distinguishes mathematical discursivity, where A equals B implies B equals A, and which he calls univocal and silent, with nothing hidden5, from communication reduced to a string of words on paper, which falls into the ambivalence of language. In Rousseau, he identifies discursive activity with moral comparison, which fades before the rocking movement6.

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6. 6Left-washing: are the woke the most asleep?17 Nov 2021 · 1:02:18

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