Affinity (philosophy)
The term affinity can be used in various senses in the philosophical specialist literature in detail to denote the proximity, approachability or connectivity of two objects, properties, terms or ideas.
Kant differentiates between "empirical affinity" - the connectivity of ideas, which is based on a connectedness in the appearing object - and " transcendental affinity" - the connectivity of ideas that is made possible by a unity in self-consciousness and is in turn the basis of empirical affinity.
Jakob Friedrich Fries speaks of “affinity” when a constant transition between two classes of objects or concepts is conceivable.
See also
- Propensity (propensity)
Web links
- "Affinity" in Eisler's dictionary of philosophical terms
- "Affinity" in Mauthner's Dictionary of Philosophy
- “Affinity” in Kirchner's / Michaëlis' dictionary of basic philosophical terms
Individual evidence
- ↑ Immanuel Kant: Critique of pure reason , A 114 et passim.
- ↑ Fries: System der Logic, 1811, p. 105, here to Eisler 1904 and Ernst Reinhold: Die Logic , or Die Allgemeine Denkformenlehre, Cröker, Jena 1827, p. 123.