Doubt and Possibility. On the Symbolic Structures of Philosophical Thought

• Main Author: Joaquim Braga
• Format: Article
• Language: deu
• Published: Institute Nova Revija for the Humanities 2020-12-01
• Series: Phainomena
• Subjects: concept; doubt; possibility; sense of reality; thought
• Online Access: http://www.phainomena.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/7_E-PHI_29_114-115_Braga.pdf

Any criticism that can be made of philosophy necessarily implies knowledge of the nature of its symbolic structures. Accordingly, in this paper, I argue that the reflective value of philosophy in the understanding of reality must start by taking into account the peculiar features of the symbolic elements, which compose and support its epistemic structures. The representative core of these elements is, to that extent, the philosophical concept. Through it, as I will try to bring to light, the human mind acquires an ideal coupling between thought objects and the act of thinking itself, which in turn differs from that of other forms of knowledge. The question remains, however, whether such unity always carries a sense of reality and what its nature is.