Dianoia

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani links dianoia to Plato and presents it as discursive knowledge, that is, mediate knowledge: it proceeds by way of reasoning1. He describes it as hypothetico-deductive, on the mathematical model of "if, then". It starts from hypotheses and moves toward conclusions without going back up to the unhypothetical principle2. For him, its truth rests on coherence: statements follow one another without contradicting each other3, and a proposition is held to be true because it does not contradict what has been established before4. He places dianoia between sensation and dialectic: it is the level at which things are named and concepts are produced5. He returns to this notion in varied contexts, from Kant to Nerval, then in connection with the sciences of history and the "springtime of peoples". From one session to the next, the characterization stays the same.

1. 1#3.5 D'Ulysse à Dédale1 Aug 2017 · 27:52
2. 2Kant11 Dec 2015 · 18:24
3. 3#4.9 Angélique (de Nerval)14 Jun 2018 · 25:07
4. 4UN PRINTEMPS DES PEUPLES ?18 Mar 2023 · 51:47
5. 59 #12 Comment des sciences de l'histoire peuvent-elles être réelles?14 Jan 2021 · 16:16

Summary produced automatically from 5 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.