Volume 70 (2015), 3

Definitions are usually identified with the sentences of the form “X =df Y”. This form is underspecified in various respects; in particular, it is not quite clear what is expressed by =df. The present paper is an attempt to answer the following question: What kind of relation can be represented by =df? It is argued that for every sentence of the form “X =df Y”… Read more

The proponents of analytical philosophy often draw a comparison between mathe- matics and chess. Their metaphor is to suggest that both the result of mathematical calculation and the content of a mathematical statement are determined by the rules of “mathematical game” of some kind and independent of status quo. The steps made in a given calculation or proof… Read more

The aim of the paper is to show that in the framework of philosophy of science it is possible to choose such an approach to the reconstruction of scientific laws and scientific explanation and also to the testing of scientific theories which enables us to avoid the well-known raven paradox as stated by C. G. Hempel. The paper starts with an analysis of Hempel’s… Read more

The call to “know thyself” is neither a matter of presence and absence to self, nor the necessary or unnecessary possibility or impossibility of self-knowledge ‒ rather it is a problem. And the oracle gives a sign of this problem by implying that which is neither spoken nor concealed. But if implication is the problem of the sign, it is because it suspends the… Read more

The paper focuses on the methodological problem of interpretation in Jacques Derridaʼs work. In order to build up a new philosophical strategy against the violence of western metaphysics and its indications of full presence or full absence of textʼs meaning, Derrida opens the text to semantic inconsistence. From the point of view of deconstruction, every text… Read more