Volume 3, 1983
Sektions-Vorträge II - Résumés des sections II - Section Papers II
Euryalo Cannabrava
Pages 123-126
Illative Space and Theory of Knowledge
The paper is concerned with illative argument and natural inference in its relations with theoretical problems of knowledge. Illative argument is neither deductive nor inductive: it is cognitive as natural and spontaneous way of reasoning. And ultimately it starts a free search for the sources of cognitive modes of thought, grounded in association of ideas by elective affinities (Wahlverwandtschaft) in a Goethean style.