Metis, Lateral Thinking and Fallacy Control in Relation to Kairos

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In order to have a more thorough understanding of culture, both in its seemingly limited consideration of it as practical philosophy of life and in its wider scope of it as considered within the scope of the history of culture, it is essential to realise the association of the archaic and classical Greek notion of Metis with the contemporary notion of lateral thinking. Realising their interrelation, closer to the field of informal logic, helps us in contemplating upon fallacies and their relation to truth on the basis, both temporal and spatial, of kairos.
The lecture is a part of the project “Advancing the notion of Kairos“ of the Academy of Athens