OBIECTUL CUNOAŞTERII ÎN FILOSOFIA IDONEISMULUI
The Object of Knowledge in the Philosophy of Idoneism

Summary/Abstract: This article is focused on some crucial features of the epistemology of the Swiss Professor Ferdinand Gonseth (1890–1975), mathematician and philosopher of science. Thus, the most important ideas expressed during some important discussions and debates concerning Gonseth’s epistemology and philosophy, as well as his wellknown conceptual contributions (the idoneism or the adequacy, the horizon of reality, the relationship subject-object in the knowledge, an epistemological interpretation of quantum mechanics etc.) are emphasized. All of these are an intrinsic part of what one could name as Gonseth’s way to an original epistemological and philosophical view: the ‘idoneism’ or ‘idonéité’ – some kind of ‘adequacy’, near to what van Fraassen calls empirical adequacy, according to François Bonsack. In Gonseth’s view, the human knowledge is always approximate and revisable, being always adequate and never completely certain or true. However, this is not an argument for agnosticism or pessimism; on the contrary, it is an argument for adequacy.

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