Substance and Function & Einstein's Theory of Relativity PDF

Ernst Cassirer (1874 - 1945) war ein deutscher Philosoph und Philosophiehistoriker, der der sogenannten Marburger Schule der „neukantianischen Philosophie“ angehörte. Er ist vor allem als der prominenteste Kommentator der kritischen Philosophie Kant im 20. Jahrhundert bekannt. 1933 verließ er Deutschland und starb in New York. Zu seinen bekanntesten Werken zählen: „Wesen und Funktion“ (1910), „Freiheit und Form“ (1916), „Philosophie der symbolischen Formen“ (1923 - 1929), „Mythos und Staat“ (1942), „Symbol, Mythos und Kultur“ (1979), „Sprache und Mythos.“ (1925).

Substance and Function & Einstein's Theory of Relativity pdf von Ernst Cassirer

PREFACE The investigations contained in this volume were first prompted by studies in the philosophy of mathematics. In the course of an attempt to compreheud the fundamental conceptjons of mathcmu.tics from the point of view of logic, it became necessary to analyse more closely the function of the concept itself and to trace it back to its presuppositions. Here, however, a peculiar difficulty arose: the traditional logic of the concept, in its ,yell-known features, proved inadequate even to characterize the problems to which the theory of the principles of mathematics led. It became increasingly evident that exact science had here reached questions for which there existed no precise correlate in the traditionnllanguage of formal logic. The content of mathematical knowledge point.ed back to a fundamental form of the concept not clearly defined and recognized ,,,'ithin logic it.self. In part.icular, hlVestigations conccmiug the concepts of the series and of the limit,