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Design of the Modern Inquiring System. XII. Interpreting the Cognitive and Evaluative Aspects of Immanuel Kant's Aesthetics: Implications for System Science
Author(s) -
van Gigch John P.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
systems research and behavioral science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1099-1743
pISSN - 1092-7026
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-1743(199701/02)14:1<35::aid-sres82>3.0.co;2-q
Subject(s) - epistemology , reading (process) , cognition , function (biology) , philosophy , sociology , psychology , linguistics , evolutionary biology , neuroscience , biology
Abstract Immanuel Kant's (1790) Critique of Judgment is a manual on aesthetics. It contains many references on the uses of quantitative and qualitative functions. Thus, a reading of Kant provides a conceptual and epistemological framework to refine the modern inquiring system, in particular, as it pertains to the ability of the measurement function to evaluate the abstract attributes of inexact‐soft domains which are so prevalent in the social and system sciences. © 1997 by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.