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Fiction
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[German Version] I. Philosophy of Religion – II. Fundamental Theology – III. Literature
I. Philosophy of Religion Fiction, from Latin
fingere, “to configure, imagine, make up,” refers, in modern philosophy, first to that class of signs which – differing from descriptive accounts of natural or cultural “facts” – denote nothing and – in contrast with illusion – deals expressly with this reference function. To this class belong aesthetic creatures (unicorn), literary figures (Don Quixote), and also the so-called
entia rationis (I. Kant's concept of the pure intellect, cf.
Critique …
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Religion Past and Present
Pragmatics
(561 words)
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I. Philosophy of Religion and Fundamental Theology In modern philosophy, the term
pragmatics (from Gk τὸ πρᾶγμα/
tó prágma, “action, act, thing”) denotes both purposive and object-oriented cognition and action. Departing from the usage of I. Kant, who understood the adjective
pragmatisch instrumentally (e.g.
Kritik der reinen Vernunft, 1781, B 834f.; ET:
Critique of Pure Reason, 1881), semiotics follows in the footsteps of C.S. Peirce’s triadic theory of signs, relating it to the interpretation of signs (interpretant). Peirce’s point that signs must always be understood as communicated was modified by Morris, who distinguished within general semiotics between syntactics, semantics, and pragmatics. In this usage,
pragmatics denotes the spatiotemporal and personal conditions involved in the use of signs. The accentuated dimension of the use of signs dominated the subsequent philosophical development of the term. It is reflected, for example in the “pragmatic turn” in 20th-century philosophy of language (L. Wittgenstein), “transcendental pragmatics” in hermeneutics (Karl-Otto Apel), and the use of the term
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Religion Past and Present
Semiotics
(3,339 words)
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I. Religious Studies Semiotics, a discipline inaugurated primar…
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Religion Past and Present
