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This study tries to put the foundations of a theory of reasoning on the ground of philosophy as philosophy: what are the presupposed terms of the philosophical research, and what they are meaning. It intends to separate words from their “evident” meaning and to receive them as “symbolic items”. Symbolization is the most important way of proceeding in philosophy. Philosophers are usually not aware of this symbolical process. Thus, the structure of “knowing” in philosophy is presented as a way of symbolizing. This perspective is open in referring to the traditional problems.
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Kremer-Marietti, A. Theory of philosophy as a science of the symbolic. Argumentation 4, 363–373 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00173972
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