Open AccessLogical and Analogical Thinking
Author(s) -
Gottfried Gabriel
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
revista de filosofia moderna e contemporânea
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2317-9570
DOI - 10.26512/rfmc.v8i2.35862
Subject(s) - deconstruction (building) , epistemology , philosophy , postmodernism , complement (music) , analogy , logical reasoning , logical analysis , mathematics , chemistry , ecology , biochemistry , mathematical statistics , statistics , complementation , gene , biology , phenotype
The contrast between logical and analogical thinking is illustrated by the representative views of Frege and Nietzsche. These ways of thinking turn out to be expressions of different ways of conceiving the world. They stand for two opposing traditions of contemporary philosophy: scientific-analytic philosophy and postmodern deconstruction. Based on Wittgenstein's philosophy of language, it is argued that neither of the two perspectives is absolute, but that both should complement each other.