Substance and Function & Einstein's Theory of Relativity pdf

Ernst Cassirer (1874 - 1945) was a German philosopher and historian of philosophy who belonged to the so-called Marburg School of "neo-Kantian philosophy". He is best known as the most prominent commentator of Kantian critical philosophy in the twentieth century. He left Germany in 1933, and died in New York. Among his most famous works are: “Essence and Function” (1910), “Freedom and Form” (1916), “Philosophy of Symbolic Forms” (1923 - 1929), “Myth and the State” (1942), “Symbol, Myth and Culture” (1979), “Language and Myth.” (1925).

Substance and Function & Einstein's Theory of Relativity pdf by 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,