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Documentality: History, The roots of documentality & Documentality in eleven theses

Documentality is the theory of documents that underlies the ontology of social reality put forward by the Italian philosopher Maurizio Ferraris (see Ferraris 2007, 2008, 2009a and 2009b). The theory gives to documents a central position within the sphere of social objects, conceived as distinct from physical and ideal objects. Ferraris argues that social…

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Documentality topic overview

The analysis highlights History, The roots of documentality and Documentality in eleven theses as prominent areas in the source structure around Documentality.

Related topics
50
Source areas
7
Connected nodes
58
Extracted relationships
64
Related term clusters
21
Bridge connections
58

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

The roots of documentality · 16 topics
Documentality in eleven theses · 14 topics
Overview · 11 topics
Context and history · 3 topics
First step: the recognition of the sphere of social objects · 3 topics
Third step: the individuation of the sphere of documentality · 2 topics
Documentality applied to other disciplines · 1 topics

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Overview

The roots of documentality

Context and history

First step: the recognition of the sphere of social objects

Third step: the individuation of the sphere of documentality

Documentality in eleven theses

Documentality applied to other disciplines

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How Documentality connects Entity context

The extracted context around Documentality shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Documentality → American, April, Articulated, Barry Smith, Caffo, Ferraris, From Documentality, Inscribed Act, John Searle, Maurizio Ferraris, New Realism, Object, Searle, Secondly, Smith, Source, The Monist, Third, Web Another extracted example is Documentality → Adolf Reinach, French, German, Hernando, Jacques Derrida, Peruvian, Soto, Three. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Documentality

Top relations

related to history · 19
Documentality → American, April, Articulated, Barry Smith, Caffo, Ferraris, From Documentality, Inscribed Act, John Searle, Maurizio Ferraris, New Realism, Object, Searle, Secondly, Smith, Source, The Monist, Third, Web
related to The roots of documentality · 8
Documentality → Adolf Reinach, French, German, Hernando, Jacques Derrida, Peruvian, Soto, Three
related to The "Derrida thesis" · 6
Documentality → Actually, Concerning, Derrida, Derrida's, Ferraris, Keeping
related to Documentality applied to other disciplines · 4
Documentality → Platonist, Quasi-abstract, Searle's, States
related to Ferraris: object = inscribed act · 3
Documentality → According, Barry Smith, Ferraris
is a · 1
Documentality → theory of documents that underlies the ontology of social reality put forward by the Italian philosopher Maurizio Ferraris
related to Documentality in eleven theses · 1
Documentality → Ferraris
related to Third step: the individuation of the sphere of documentality · 1
Documentality → Ferraris

Important terminology

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Important terminology

social objects ferraris ontology acts smith object theory searle reality physical documents derrida de act document inscribed entities sphere new

Documentality relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 64 structured relationships around Documentality. Examples in this analysis include Documentality → is a → theory of documents that underlies the ontology of social reality put forward by the Italian philosopher Maurizio Ferraris and conferences → instance of → since without records of some sort the performatives would not produce social objects. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Documentalityis atheory of documents that underlies the ontology of social reality put forward by the Italian philosopher Maurizio Ferraris0.90text
conferencesinstance ofsince without records of some sort the performatives would not produce social objects0.80text
marriagesinstance ofsince without records of some sort the performatives would not produce social objects0.80text
graduation ceremoniesinstance ofsince without records of some sort the performatives would not produce social objects0.80text
or constitutionsinstance ofsince without records of some sort the performatives would not produce social objects0.80text
promisesinstance ofin the case of informal social acts0.80text
moneyinstance ofentities0.80text
artworksinstance ofentities0.80text
marriagesinstance ofentities0.80text
divorcesinstance ofentities0.80text
joint custodyinstance ofentities0.80text
years in prisoninstance ofentities0.80text

Related concept clusters Related term clusters

The concept neighborhoods around Documentality bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Ferraris, Theory and Philosopher. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Documentality
    • Ferraris
    • Theory
    • Philosopher
    • Social
    • Reality
    • Object
    • Ontology
    • See
    • Acts
    • Soto
    • Inscribed
    • Sphere
  • documentality
    • Ferraris
    • Theory
    • Philosopher
    • Social
    • Reality
    • Object
    • Ontology
    • See
    • Acts
    • Soto
    • Inscribed
    • Sphere
  • ontology
    • Social
    • Develop
    • Sense
    • Ferraris
    • Searle
    • Reality
    • Objects
    • Banknote
    • Make
    • Philosopher
    • Recordings
    • World
  • social reality
    • Searle
    • Objects
    • Reality
    • Social
    • Object
    • Acts
    • Physical
    • New
    • Ferraris
    • Sphere
    • Act
    • Philosopher
  • maurizio ferraris
    • Theory
    • Social
    • Ontology
    • Acts
    • According
    • Objects
    • Reality
    • Develop
    • Make
    • Philosopher
    • Recordings
    • See
  • objects
    • Social
    • Physical
    • Inscribed
    • Object
    • Acts
    • Paper
    • Sphere
    • Make
    • One
    • Recordings
    • Ontology
    • Act
  • de soto
    • Soto
    • Philosopher
    • See
    • Ed
    • Derrida
    • Searle
    • Smith
    • Reality
    • World
    • According
    • Documentality
    • One
  • social ontology
    • Objects
    • Reality
    • Object
    • Social
    • Acts
    • Physical
    • Develop
    • Sense
    • Searle
    • Ferraris
    • Sphere
    • Act

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Documentality, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Documentality with The roots of documentality. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Documentality — The roots of documentality · splits 42 ⟂ 17
Documentality — Documentality in eleven theses · splits 44 ⟂ 15
Documentality — Overview · splits 47 ⟂ 12
Documentality — Context and history · splits 55 ⟂ 4
Documentality — First step: the recognition of the sphere of social objects · splits 55 ⟂ 4
Documentality — Third step: the individuation of the sphere of documentality · splits 56 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

Documentality

Nodes59
Edges58
Triples64
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.033898
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Documentality to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, The roots of documentality & Documentality in eleven theses, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Documentality · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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