LOGICO-MATHEMATICAL TRUTHS AT THE LIMITS OF AESTHETIC EXHAUSTION

Abstract

The discussion proposed here starts from a criticism presented by Howard Delong, still in the 70’s, against existentialism, a philosophy long ago out of fashion. The recovery of this criticism turns out to be legitimate to the present moment, because important philosophical positions that are popular nowadays run the risk of a similar exhaustion. General epistemological views advanced by Delong and other authors concerned with results obtained in the more circumscribed fields of logic, mathematics and computation theory, remain a valid antidote to such an exhaustion. These views enable one to transcends the triviality of merely skeptical and historicist positions, avoiding a simple neglect of substantial notions such as truth and intuition. The discussion concludes by defending that it is necessary to rescue these last notions even in non-scientific fields such as literary criticism.