Sublime

Later, Galen builds upon his contention that kakoethos is metonymic, represented by “visible signs pertaining to the whole body.”

it passionately asserts two central truths:

Such a language, like the ancient Chinese script, should be able to express the most complex matters graphically, without excluding individual imagination and inventiveness, in such a way as to be understandable to all the scholars of the world. It was at this point that Joculator Basiliensis applied himself to the problem. He invented for the Glas

a descrição de quaisquer factos só tem a ganhar com o rigor e a propriedade dos termos usados.

The answer is that we must use rules of inference which, to the best of our understanding, will cause our symbols to behave, in the relevant ways, like the abstract entities they denote. How can we be sure that they will? We cannot.