Analiza i Egzystencja (Dec 2012)

Pewność jako perspektywa poznawcza. Anty-nowożytne pojęcie pewności [Certainty as Cognitive Perspective. Anti-Modern Concept of Certainty]

  • Katarzyna Gurczyńska-Sady

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 20
pp. 65 – 81

Abstract

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The article presents new understanding of the certainty which appears in the 20th century in relation to revolutionary changes of the important for the philosophy notionsas: the subject, the existence, the cognition, or the knowledge. The author is makingthe presentation by pointing to the new, comparing to the modern tradition, sourceof the knowledge. Describing her new figure as the sense, which is not reflectedby the subject but is freeing, the certainty is finding not in thecogito, located outsidethe world, but in thebehaviorof the embodied subject.

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