GIOVANA MANTOVANI ED OLIVEIRA

Categorization is an important language-mediated conceptual effect in human cognition. It is is how we collectively organize our experience of the world and build relationships between members of the same category. What are the criteria by which we group the world? How far can we establish these groupings within empiricism and the scientific argument? This paper aims to use semantics and phenomenology as research tools for scientific theory and structuralist logic. The characteristic zeal for truth present in phenomenological thought, implies the exclusion of all knowledge given a priori. And language is the previously established phenomenom par excellence. Uncovering the linguistic signs means decoding the intelligibility of beings and the relationships they form between entities. And this is precisely what appeals to politics, the simultaneous continuity and discontinuity of language with reality, and the delimitation of categories as a principle that separates and organizes human beings. How the human conceptual system is organized, and its philosophical implications will be the main themes of this research.