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- Title
CONTAR CON LA IMAGINACIÓN.
- Authors
JOHNSON, DAVID E.
- Abstract
This essay demonstrates the structural relationship between testimony and aesthetic judgment. The implications of this discovery are several, the most important being the relationship between the lie and truth, implicating that lie indicates the irreducible possibility of truth. The essay explains the necessary impossibility of the testimony as a condition of its possibility, an argument anticipated in Jorge Luis Borges' beautiful phrase, "There is not a single beautiful word, with the dubious exception of witness, that is not an abstraction". The argument is based on Husserl's theory of the syncategorem ("incomplete" words whose meaning depends on the context) and on deictic words ("essentially occasional" words); as well, it takes from Kant, the role of the imagination and the effects of the "as if".
- Subjects
IMAGINATION; POSSIBILITY; LEGAL testimony; AESTHETIC judgment; ARGUMENT; TERMS &; phrases; LIE detectors &; detection
- Publication
Ideas y Valores, 2020, Vol 69, p49
- ISSN
0120-0062
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15446/ideasyvalores.v69n6Supl.90092