Philosopheme

Phi`los´o`pheme

A philosophical proposition, doctrine, or principle of reasoning.

This, the most venerable, and perhaps the most ancient, of Grecian myths, is a philosopheme.

- Coleridge.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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Bacon's poem is an urgent exhortation to conservation, concluding with a key philosopheme: "je sais que c'est dans l'impossible/que je trouverai le possible." (I know that it's in the impossible/that I will find the possible.) And Maria Campbell's evocation of the continual displacement of Metis people from historic communities highlights the continuity of primitive accumulation with the gentrification of the city.

CMHR: the unbearable lightness of inclusion: human rights museum suffers from cognitive dissonance

First, following Derrida (2002: 338), such structural instability may be the product of the success of the UNESCO philosopheme in exploiting its endemic propensity towards hybridity and consequently constantly exceeding and transforming its original GrecoRoman structure in new and unpredictable ways.

Re-totalizing culture: breathing the intangible into museum practice?

In 1923, he composed his longest theoretical piece on the performing arts, assembled out of his lectures for actors at the Kamerny, "A Philosopheme about the Theater." (17) In it he praises the performer's skill at changing "I's" before the eyes of a public, possible only because trained actors contain within themselves "all the varied and various aspects of a human being" (the title of one of his lectures: "Akter kak raznovidnost' cheloveka") (64).

Tairov's theater, Evreinov's monodramatic moment, and the lessons of Eugene Onegin, a drama in verse

What makes this thesis so provocative is that against the explicit goal of the first Critique--to ground scientific laws on the firm foundation of synthetic a priori judgments--the post-critical philosopheme that Kant helps to install in the form of the correlationist circle absolutely restricts the capacity of science to make any absolute claims whatsoever.

The necessity of contingency or contingent necessity: Meillassoux, Hegel, and the subject

For an analysis of the Chunqiu annals as an historiographical realization of this "philosopheme" see Robert H.

Confucius and pregnant women: an investigation into the intertextuality of the Lunyu

El segundo texto en el que nos centraremos sera en Ueber Mythen, historische Sagen und Philosopheme der altesten Welt.

La libertad incondicionada del yo absoluto en el Joven Schelling

The attitude is by no means confined to the popular use of 'rhetoric' but is in fact a recurrent philosophical topos, a philosopheme that may well be constitutive of philosophical language itself.

Pygmalions' reading of reading Pygmalions: rhetorical self-quest in de Man, Rousseau, and Ovid

The death of Man is possibly the most predominant twentieth-century philosopheme, and this issue is implicitly at stake in this film.