Dynamique des formes et interprétation de la nature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4080653 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roselyne Rey |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 49-62 |
| Publication date | 1991-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Recherches sur Diderot et sur l Encyclopédie (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0769-0886 • E-ISSN: 1955-2416 |
| Publisher | PERSEE Program (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3406/rde.1991.1121 |
| OpenAlex | W2053762254 |
| Language | FR |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 1 |
Roselyne Rey : Dynamic forms and the interpretation of nature. A study of the structure of the Pensées sur l'interprétation de la Nature and its elaboration starting from the central metaphor of the chain, leads to a reevaluation of the Baconian legacy in this work. Diderot's initial agreement with the principles of induction, in particular the importance of "median axioms", leads to difficulties when he comes to reflect on the life sciences. Theses difficulties concern first of all the classic question of the legitimacy of abstraction, and secondly the newer and more intractable problem of the determination of the particular, which centres round the definition of the "form". What is the "form" of life? What is a biological individual? These questions lead back to the dynamism of living forms
Abstraction · Axiom · Dynamism · Elaboration · Epistemology · Humanities · Interpretation (philosophy · Legitimacy · Metaphor · Metaphysics · Political science · Theology · Historical and Literary Analyses · Historical and Literary Studies · Historical and Scientific Studies · Mathematics · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.06 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1994 - 1994 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |