Parmenidean Monism

Curd, Patricia

doi:10.1163/156852891321052688

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“…In Parmenides' time and during the centuries following Homer, his noos (now spelled nous ) directly means acquiring knowledge as understanding. For Parmenides, if mortals fail to use their reason ( nous ) correctly, they fail to reach real truth (Curd, 1991).…”

Section: Parmenides and Sense: Acquiring Knowledgementioning

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“…His Goddess suggests that “helplessness guides their wandering nous ” or reason, so that it is connected with opinion ( doxa ) rather than truth ( aletheia ) (B6.5-6). “The implication is that mortals, having failed to keep their thought from the forbidden route, are guided by a mistaken, deceived and altogether helpless noos ( nous )” (Curd, 1991). Moreover, the poem‘s use of a route along which an individual's journey toward knowledge is similar to Brenda Dervin‘s notion of the protagonist‘s sense-making journey.…”

Section: Parmenides and Sense: Acquiring Knowledgementioning

confidence: 99%

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“How didst thou come beneath the murky darkness?”: sense-making in light of the ancient Greeks and in the spirit of Hegel

Gross

2023

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PurposeThis piece explores the philosophical origins of sense-making as defined in Brenda Dervin’s methodology.Design/methodology/approachThis conceptual paper locates the origins of sense-making's rich ontological, epistemological and etymological heritage to the Classical Greece and the Pre-Socratic period. The Greek origins of sense-making‘s philosophical undercurrents surface again in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit before the idea is picked up again in twentieth century philosophy and library science.FindingsThis is a conceptual paper and no empirical findings are presented.Originality/valueThis paper makes an original contribution to the study of information seeking and to sense making theory and methodology.

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Section: Parmenides and Sense: Acquiring Knowledgementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Parmenides and Sense: Acquiring Knowledgementioning

confidence: 99%