Lennart Nrreklit

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Creative thinking and ontological
conceptualization

• Lennart Nörreklit
• 11/2-2009

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Contents

• A. Ontological conceptualization
• Concepts and creativity
• Reality understanding concepts
• Reality and philosophical issues
• B. Reality and creativity
• Ontological hierarchy and creativity
• Creation and human nature
• Dimensions of reality
• Ontological integration and creativity

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A1 Concepts and creativity

• Concepts are neither definitions, language rules
  nor abstract entities to envision.
• Concepts are complex systems underlying conscious
  operations and personal judgment
• They are necessary for a personal stand
• They are developed through a complex reflection
  Socrates initiates the development of concepts
• The alternative to developing concepts is to be
  rules by rhetoric's and sophism.
• Concepts are kind of paradigmatic

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A1 Illustration

• Concepts a world
• concepts involve a complex understanding far
  beyond the directly visible

• An individual concept
• We create concepts about all important phenomena-
  individual or general (persons, countries, brands
  )

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A1 Concepts and creativity

• This richness in the concept construction means
  that our creativity is very much at work in
  creating good concepts.
• People develop different concepts about the same
  phenomena.
• The ability to identify phenomena and the
  conception of the phenomena are not the same.
  This makes creative (philosophical) conceptual
  discussions and studies possible.

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A2 Ontological conceptualization

• Concepts are used to form our consciousness and
  the way we construct reality.
• Thus concepts have an ontological function.

• In scientific methodology such as grounded theory
  conceptualization is not related to the
  ontological role concepts play.

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A2 Understanding concepts

• To understand concepts is to understand the role
  they play in forming our life. Wittgenstein Look
  for the use.
• Concepts can be described in relation to some
  other concepts in non-holistic ways (puzzle
  solving, solving specific problems etc.) but
  understanding concepts is only possible in
  understanding their role in the construction of
  our life. (Conceptual systems, Hegel)
• Clarifying conceptual complementarity is a
  condition for conceptual understanding.

• Understanding of the role of concepts cannot be
  obtained through particularized approaches such
  as
• problem solving (Popper, Ryle, the late
  Wittgenstein)
• though experiments (Wilson)
• conceptual shemes (Deleuze)
• saturation of concepts (Frege, grounded theory)
• Particular studies are fuzzy and indeterminate
  and can be interpreted in many alternative and
  contradictory ways.

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A3 Reality, validity and concepts

• Realty is contrasted with various forms non-real
  phenomena and worlds fiction, illusions,
  hallucinations etc.
• This does not apply to ontological categories
  such as world or being.
• Criteria for reality are concerned with working
  out these borders i.e. the border between valid
  and not valid understanding.
• This reinterprets the epistemological issues The
  problem of out the world is the problem how we
  can distinguish between real and illusion. The
  problem of other minds is the problem how to
  ensure that we do understand other people.
• Without conceptual understanding, there is no
  distinction between genuine or real and not real.
  Then everything is just a discourse and
  philosophy becomes a conservative re-talking of
  the ruling talk (sophism).

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B Reality and creativity

• Being and world is creative to be is to be
  creating
• Creativity takes shape in constitution of reality
  thus also reality is creative
• Reality is an evolving dynamics between being and
  world, person and life-world.

• being-in

world
being
reality / fiction
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B1-2 Ontological development and hierarchies

• Creative systems
• from energy to atomic world (problem of creation
  of the world)
• from the atomic world to matter
• from matter to life (problem of creation of life)
• from life to consciousness (problem of the
  creation of mind)
• from consciousness to love and the human world
  (the creation of love, philo-sophy and concepts)

• Man - the creating being
• Each person creates a life-world
• Human beings continuously create new life worlds
  (history)
• Human beings are creative in all aspects of the
  human life form
• Reality is a functioning life form relation
  between persons and their world forms of decay
  do not function.

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B3 Dimensions of reality

• Factual dimension, observation based
• Possibilities, modal dimension, reflectoin based
• Value dimension love based, felling signal
• Meaning, communication

• Reality presupposed that the dimensions are
  integrated values must be possible,
  possibilities must be grounded and factual and
  meaning / communication must integrate these
  aspects in order to function.
• There is no preset factual, causal, logical
  emotional or linguistic system of integration.

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Actor - reality - world
Abstraction, fiktion, one-dimensional
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Creativity Integrated world and mind
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Underlying principle connecting being and world

• Love provides reason to be and thus all reason.
• (Love differentiates in love to be, love to the
  world and love to the other.)
• The relation of love relates being to world
  creating the development of the integrated mind
  in the integrated world
• Destruction of this basis destroys peoples reason
  to be and creates imbalance due to despair.

• Love creates focus - attention, Achtung (Kant
  misconstructs Achtung as feeling)
• Before any concept, love creates focus,
  endurance, that enables the construction of
  concepts.
• Philo-sophia is by its very notion the activity
  to develop concepts based on a love to insight.
• In the sophist world of today, where political
  power controls all meaning, concepts break down
  and reason reduces to a rhetoric of power once
  again.