Analogia ca formă esențială a gândirii naturale din intelect, rațiune și speculațiune
Analogy as an essential form of natural thinking in understanding, reason, and speculation

Summary/Abstract: Nowadays it is usually considered that we have two research codes: one digital and one analogous. But the reality to be researched is rather “continuous” than separated in “rigid” categories. That's why analogue language seems more appropriate on a continuous scale of natural thinking in the process of knowing. Ultimately, one cannot go beyond analogy, because the analogical terms are the very condition of the possibility of conceptual thinking, the ultimate “unity” of thinking. But the thinking has three main faculties (Alexandru Surdu): understanding, reason and speculation. Although these faculties can be described and treated differently (in a more didactic perspective), the present study attempts to capture the continuity between them through analogy, which gives a certain unity to the faculties of thinking.

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