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The aim of this article is to outline two philosophical approaches to metaphor that were developed in the 20th century. The first contends that metaphor opens up the possibility of liberating philosophical discourse from the prison of rigid conceptual schemes and can guide us to a new metaphysics founded on some deep, hidden, revelatory knowledge which eludes both empirical and rational inquiry. Paul Ricoeur, the author La metaphore vive (1975) is regarded as the main representative of this approach, but, as the article shows, his way of thinking about metaphor and its role made its appearance already in the 1920s and 1930s, and found its brilliant synthesis in Geneza metaforei şi sensul culturii, the second volume of the monmental Trilogia culturii by the Romanian philosopher Lucian Blaga. The second approach was inaugurated by Nietzsche with his “On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense” and had its continuation in the thought of Heidegger, Derrida and De Man. Nietzsche insists that philosophical (metaphysical) discourse has no better claim to the truth than metaphor. Metaphor is at the root of language; metaphors are older than language; and metaphors underpin language in all its constructions and uses (rhetoric, tropology). Carried to its conclusion this argument leads to the dissolution of the borders between philosophy and poetry, and, in effect, the death of philosophy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper presents equivalent impedance and operator admittance systems for fractional order elements. Presented models of fractional order elements of the type: S αLα ans 1/s αCα, (θ, α < 1) were obtained using the Laplace transform based on the expansion of the factor sign to an infinite fraction with varying degrees of accuracy - the continued fraction expansion method (CFE). Then circuit synthesis methods were applied. As a result, equivalent circuit diagrams of fractional order elements were obtained. The obtained equivalent schemes consist both of classical RLC elements, as well as active elements built based on operational amplifiers. Numerical experiments were conducted for the constructed models, presenting responses to selected input signals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article traces two lines of philosophical interpretations of the character of Don Quixote. Common to both is the view that Don Quixote should be treated as a paragon of directness, i.e. a subject that strives to attain his ideals - a sphere of sense that is general - without any mediation (in the sense of Vermittlung). For the existentialist Miguel de Unamuno, who in this respect follows Kierkegaard, the individual cannot constitute himself unless he rejects mediation, Quixote is a knight of faith, whose every intervention is an act of heroism analogous to Abraham's leap of faith. For the Hegelian Constantin Noica the opposite is true: any attempt to move from the particular to the general without mediation is a symptom of an existential and ontological disorder. Taking his cue from Hegel's Law of the Heart and the Frenzy of Self-Conceit (Phenomenology of Spirit), Noica repudiates Quixote's unswerving commitment as insane folly. These two diametrically opposed assessments - one inspired by Kirkegaard, the other by Hegel - show the significance of Don Quixote as a focus of the modern debate about mediation and its dilemmas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]