Experiencing and the Creation of Meaning,9780810114272

Experiencing and the Creation of Meaning

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ISBN13: 9780810114272
ISBN10: 0810114275
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Pub. Date: 1997-08-20
Publisher(s): Northwestern Univ Pr
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Table of Contents

PREFACE TO THE PAPER EDITION xi(14)
PREFACE xxv
INTRODUCTION 1(1)
1. Things, Logic, and Experiencing
1(9)
2. A Description of Experiencing
10(6)
3. The Demands of Existentialism and of Logical Positivism Can be Included
16(5)
4. Preconceptual Experiencing Is the Basic Factor to Which Are Due the Many Current Calls for a New Methodology in the Behavioral Sciences
21(3)
5. The Preconceptual Character of Experiencing
24(5)
6. Content Concepts Are Ineffective to Organize Observations
29(5)
7. Illustrations in the Area of Psychotherapy
34(10)
I THE PROBLEM OF EXPERIENCED MEANING 44(19)
[A] Statement of the Problem
44(4)
[B] A Few Problems That Lead to the Problem of Experienced Meaning
48(8)
1. Method in Psychology
48(3)
2. Problems in Psychology
51(4)
3. Experience as a Source of Meaning
55(1)
4. The Dependence of Intellect
55(1)
[C] Certain Related Issues That Are Not Involved in the Present Task
56(7)
1. The Validity of Cognition
57(2)
2. The Causation of Cognition
59(1)
3. Example and Discussion of the Separation of the Present Problem from These Problems
60(3)
II DEMONSTRATION THAT FELT MEANING FUNCTIONS IN COGNITION 63(27)
Introduction 63(2)
[A] Demonstration That Felt Meaning Occurs in All Cases of Human Cognition
65(6)
1. Thought
65(2)
2. Observation
67(1)
3. Action
68(1)
4. Speech
69(1)
5. Art, Religion, Emotion, Persons
70(1)
[B] Demonstration That Felt Meaning Performs Specific Functions Necessary in Cognition, Other than the Experienced or Associated Parallel Side of Cognition
71(19)
1. Problem Solving
71(4)
2. Remembering or Articulating
75(2)
3. Psychotherapy
77(13)
III HOW FELT MEANING FUNCTIONS 90(48)
[A] Parallel Functional Relationships of Felt Meaning in Cognition
91(20)
1. Direct Reference
91(9)
2. Recognition
100(6)
3. Explication
106(4)
Summary
110(1)
[B] Creative Functional Relationships ("Specific," "Nonparallel")
111(27)
1. Metaphor
113(4)
2. Comprehension
117(10)
3. Relevance
127(7)
4. Circumlocution
134(4)
IV CHARACTERISTICS OF EXPERIENCED MEANING AS FUNCTIONING IN NEW SYMBOLIZATION 138(35)
[A] Experienced Meaning Is Not Determined by Logical Relationships, But Does Not Function Arbitrarily
140(8)
1. Reversal of the Usual Philosophic Procedure
140(4)
2. What Determines the Creation of Meanings?
144(3)
Summary
147(1)
[B] Characteristics of Experienced Meaning as Functioning in New Symbolization
148(25)
Introduction 148(3)
1. The Non-numerical Character of Experience
151(2)
2. The "Multischematic" Character of Experience
153(6)
3. Meanings Are Likenesses and Vice Versa
159(1)
4. Relation or Relata
160(1)
5. Multiplicity
163(1)
6. Any Concept Is One of Many
163(1)
7. Any Experienced Meaning Can (Partly) Schematize (Creatively Determine) a New Aspect of Another Experienced Meaning
164(3)
8. Every Experience Is Capable of Having an Aspect Schematized by Any Other Experience
167(4)
9. Creative Regress
171(2)
V THE PRINCIPLE OF UNIVERSALS: "IOFI" 173(32)
Introduction 173(2)
1. Methodological Questions Can Refer to the Kind of Experiencing Involved in a Meaning and Its Role in Discourse
175(7)
2. Specifying Experiencing as an Instance of Itself
182(2)
3. Reflexivity: Experiencing as an "Iofi" Is Meaning
184(3)
4. Applicability of "Iofi"
187(5)
5. "Iofi" Is the Principle of the Functional Relationships
192(1)
6. An Optional Distinction Among the Functional Relationships Applied to "Iofi" and to Relativity
193(4)
7. "Iofi," Relativity, and an Exemplary Issue Mutually Applied to Each Other
197(3)
8. Reflexivity
200(2)
9. The "Iofi" Principle and Traditional Philosophy
202(3)
VI APPLICATION IN PHILOSOPHY 205(21)
[A] Principles of Philosophic Method as Implied by Relativity
206(13)
1. Countless Possible Meanings
208(1)
2. Determinacy
208(1)
3. Optional Formulation
209(1)
4. Open Schemes
209(2)
5. Evaluation of Schemes
211(1)
6. The Relativity of All Terms
212(2)
7. Functional Equality
214(2)
8. Logical Form
216(3)
[B] Conclusions Regarding Certain Philosophic Problems
219(7)
VII APPLICATION TO PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY AND RESEARCH 226(49)
[A] Terms That Refer to Experiencing
227(18)
Introduction 227(1)
1. The Task: To Make Scientific Reference to Experiencing Possible
228(2)
2. Observations of the Function of Experiencing
230(6)
3. How "Experiencing" Can Be Known and Defined (Some Definitions of Terms)
236(9)
[B] Current Issues in the Theory of Psychotherapy
245(23)
1. Degree and Kind of Conceptualization in Therapy
245(6)
2. Experience and "Congruence"
251(11)
3. The Role of Other Kinds of Symbolization
262(6)
[C] Relationship Between the Proposed Method and Logical Positivism and Operationalism in Psychology
268(7)
1. Prior to the First Positivistic Stage of an Investigation
269(2)
2. At the Stage After Operational Conclusions
271(1)
3. New Forms and Principles of Inquiry
272(3)
APPENDIX TO CHAPTER I 275(20)
Husserl 276(4)
1. Phenomenological Method 276(1)
2. The Experience of Meaning Can Be Distinguished and Has a Distinct Function in Cognition 276(1)
3. The Experience of Meaning Is Distinguished from Images and from Perceptions 277(2)
4. Meaning Is Experienced as Distinct from Symbolic Thought 279(1)
Sartre 280(6)
Merleau-Ponty 286(2)
I. A. Richards 288(7)
INDEX 295

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