The Subject’s Forms of Knowledge and the Question of Being
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Zbigniew Król
Abstract
This paper considers the diverse forms of knowledge which constitute a subject’s conviction that something exists. It is argued that the classical approaches to knowledge within the phenomenological and analytical traditions in fact bypass the problem of existence and thus fail to provide a basis for characterizing the full complexity of cognition. The paper suggests that the problem of attaining knowledge of the existence of something involves, in particular, distinguishing between different forms and acts of consciousness, and also between explicit and implicit components of cognition. Special attention is paid to the following notions: assertion, acceptance, belief, and trust.
Abstract
This paper considers the diverse forms of knowledge which constitute a subject’s conviction that something exists. It is argued that the classical approaches to knowledge within the phenomenological and analytical traditions in fact bypass the problem of existence and thus fail to provide a basis for characterizing the full complexity of cognition. The paper suggests that the problem of attaining knowledge of the existence of something involves, in particular, distinguishing between different forms and acts of consciousness, and also between explicit and implicit components of cognition. Special attention is paid to the following notions: assertion, acceptance, belief, and trust.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- Some Introductory Thoughts on Contemporary Polish Ontology VII
- On Essential Structures and Symmetries 1
- Prospects for an Animalistically Oriented Simple View 25
- How Long Does the Present Last? The Problem of Fissuration in Roman Ingarden’s Ontology 51
- The Subject’s Forms of Knowledge and the Question of Being 71
- The World as an Object of Formal Philosophy 87
- Logic and the Ontology of Language 109
- Benedict Bornstein’s Ontological Elements of Reality 133
- On the Topological Modelling of Ontological Objects: Substance in the Monadology 149
- Does Mathematical Possibility Imply Existence? 161
- Neologicism for Real(s) – Are We There Yet? 181
- Possible Worlds and Situations: How Can They Meet Up? 205
- The Ontologic of Actions 219
- “Physical Intentionality” and the Thomistic Theory of Formal Objects 245
- An Assessment of Contemporary Polish Ontology 271
- Author Index 295
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- Some Introductory Thoughts on Contemporary Polish Ontology VII
- On Essential Structures and Symmetries 1
- Prospects for an Animalistically Oriented Simple View 25
- How Long Does the Present Last? The Problem of Fissuration in Roman Ingarden’s Ontology 51
- The Subject’s Forms of Knowledge and the Question of Being 71
- The World as an Object of Formal Philosophy 87
- Logic and the Ontology of Language 109
- Benedict Bornstein’s Ontological Elements of Reality 133
- On the Topological Modelling of Ontological Objects: Substance in the Monadology 149
- Does Mathematical Possibility Imply Existence? 161
- Neologicism for Real(s) – Are We There Yet? 181
- Possible Worlds and Situations: How Can They Meet Up? 205
- The Ontologic of Actions 219
- “Physical Intentionality” and the Thomistic Theory of Formal Objects 245
- An Assessment of Contemporary Polish Ontology 271
- Author Index 295
