Contar con la imaginación

Abstract

espanolEl articulo muestra la relacion estructural entre el testimonio y el juicio estetico, y como la mentira estructural se implica irreductiblemente como la posibilidad de la verdad. Se explica la necesaria imposibilidad del testimonio como condicion de su posibilidad, argumento anticipado por J. L. Borges: “No hay una sola hermosa palabra, con la excepcion dudosa de testigo, que no sea una abstraccion”. La argumentacion se apoya en la teoria husserliana del syncategorema (palabras incompletas cuyo sen- tido depende del contexto) y en los deicticos (palabras esencialmente ocasionales); asimismo, se toma de I. Kant el papel de la imaginacion y los efectos del “como si”. EnglishThis essay demonstrates the structural relationship between testimony and aesthetic judgment. The implications of this discovery are several, the most important being the relationship between the lie and truth, implicating that lie indicates the irreducible possibility of truth. The essay explains the necessary impossibility of the testimony as a condition of its possibility, an argument anticipated in Jorge Luis Borges’ beau- tiful phrase, “There is not a single beautiful word, with the dubious exception of witness, that is not an abstraction”. The argument is based on Husserl’s theory of the syncategorem (“incomplete” words whose meaning depends on the context) and on deictic words (“essentially occasional” words); as well, it takes from Kant, the role of the imagination and the effects of the “as if”.