03016nam 2200445 450 991081855990332120230808213024.00-7618-6709-0(CKB)3710000000540105(EBL)4207044(MiAaPQ)EBC4207044(EXLCZ)99371000000054010520160115h20162016 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierNatural novelty the newness manifest in existence /Richard BoyleLanham, Maryland :University Press of America, Inc.,2016.©20161 online resource (233 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7618-6708-2 Includes bibliographical references.PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CHAPTER SUMMARIES; PRELUDE: RECURRENCE AND RECOMBINATION; A FORMAL ABSTRACT SCHEME FOR NOVELTY; Summary in words; Expansion using a logical formalism; THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS RELATING TO REAL INSTANCES OF NOVELTY DURING THE HISTORY OF LIFE ON EARTH; Life: Nature's most novel process; Information and homeostasis; The origin of heritable variation in fitness; Consciousness: The most novel property of life; Earth: The most novel known planet; ConclusionNOVELTY, MEANINGFUL LANGUAGE, SUBJECTIVITY AND TIME: A COMPARATIVE READING OF SELECTED WORKS BY LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN AND MARTIN HEIDEGGERWittgenstein; Tractatus Logico Philosophicus: Kicking away a ladder of nonsense; Philosophical investigations: Meaning is use, use is contextual and evolving; Remarks on the foundations of mathematics: Foundationless useful conventions; Zettel: Mind, body and language; On Certainty: The relativity of knowledge to the possibility of doubt; Heidegger; Being and Time; Previous comparison between Wittgenstein and Heidegger: Groundless Grounds by Lee BraverReflections and suggestionsNovelty necessitates the evolution of meaningful language over time; Novelty is the reason that we can sometimes think what we cannot say; The boundary separating the describable from the ineffable changes over time, due to the reality of novelty; Novelty explains why there is an aspect of disclosure to truth; CONCLUSION: AN UNANSWERABLE QUESTION; BIBLIOGRAPHYWhy do new things happen? Boyle answers through consideration of a conceptual history of the new, logical formalization of how novelty occurs, discussion of the relevance of novelty to scientific questions surrounding Earth, life and consciousness, and integrative reading of the respective philosophies of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Martin Heidegger.PhilosophyHistoryPhilosophyHistory.190Boyle Richard1661989MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910818559903321Natural novelty4018268UNINA