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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Philosophy of symbolic forms"”.
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Ernst Cassirer's Philosophy of Symbolic Forms and the Dialectical Problem of Knowledge
This dissertation explores the problem of how knowledge is possible, given that knowledge is necessarily rooted in the reality of the knower. The Kantian critical philosophy defeats Humean skepticism by demonstrating the a priori necessity of certain categorical functions at the root of all human …
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Panofsky, Cassirer, and perspective as symbolic form
Since its publication in 1924, Erwin Panofsky's Perspective as Symbolic Form has been at the centre of debates in art history about the nature of pictorial space and its relation to lived experience. It is interesting though that despite the central role that this work has been given, no one has …
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The Role of Symbolic Form in the Bedtime Nature Stories of Thornton W. Burgess
<p>The task of this research is to examine the epistemological premises inherent in Thornton W. Burgess' nature stories for children as defined by Ernst Cassirer's philosophy of symbolic forms. Its purpose is to identify these premises, examine them in light of Cassirer's philosophy, and explore …