La Connaissance de la vie
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La Connaissance de la vie is a seminal philosophical work by Georges Canguilhem that explores the concepts of life, biology, and normativity within the life sciences.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| La Connaissance de la vie canonical | 1 |
| The Knowledge of Life | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7168631 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: La Connaissance de la vie Context triple: [Georges Canguilhem, notableWork, La Connaissance de la vie]
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A.
La Volonté de savoir
La Volonté de savoir is Michel Foucault’s influential first volume of *The History of Sexuality*, in which he analyzes how modern societies produce and regulate discourse about sex as a form of power.
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B.
Théorème vivant
Théorème vivant is a memoir-style book by French mathematician Cédric Villani that blends personal narrative with an accessible account of high-level mathematical research and discovery.
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C.
La Vérité des sciences
La Vérité des sciences is a 17th-century philosophical treatise by Marin Mersenne that defends the reliability of scientific knowledge against skepticism and reconciles it with Christian theology.
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D.
La Recherche de l’absolu
La Recherche de l’absolu is a novel by Honoré de Balzac that explores obsession, alchemy, and the destructive pursuit of scientific perfection within a bourgeois family.
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E.
L’Existence
L’Existence is a philosophical work by French thinker Georges Lacombe that explores the nature and conditions of human existence.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: La Connaissance de la vie Target entity description: La Connaissance de la vie is a seminal philosophical work by Georges Canguilhem that explores the concepts of life, biology, and normativity within the life sciences.
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A.
La Volonté de savoir
La Volonté de savoir is Michel Foucault’s influential first volume of *The History of Sexuality*, in which he analyzes how modern societies produce and regulate discourse about sex as a form of power.
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B.
Théorème vivant
Théorème vivant is a memoir-style book by French mathematician Cédric Villani that blends personal narrative with an accessible account of high-level mathematical research and discovery.
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C.
La Vérité des sciences
La Vérité des sciences is a 17th-century philosophical treatise by Marin Mersenne that defends the reliability of scientific knowledge against skepticism and reconciles it with Christian theology.
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D.
La Recherche de l’absolu
La Recherche de l’absolu is a novel by Honoré de Balzac that explores obsession, alchemy, and the destructive pursuit of scientific perfection within a bourgeois family.
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E.
L’Existence
L’Existence is a philosophical work by French thinker Georges Lacombe that explores the nature and conditions of human existence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | philosophical work ⓘ |
| author | Georges Canguilhem ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| exploresConcept |
biological normativity
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concept of organism in biology ⓘ relation between normal and pathological ⓘ specificity of life sciences ⓘ status of biological laws ⓘ |
| field |
history of science
ⓘ
philosophy of biology ⓘ philosophy of science ⓘ |
| genre |
non-fiction
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philosophical literature ⓘ |
| hasPhilosophicalApproach |
critical analysis of biological concepts
ⓘ
historical analysis of life sciences ⓘ |
| influenced |
French philosophy of medicine
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Michel Foucault ⓘ contemporary philosophy of biology ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Auguste Comte
ⓘ
linked to:
Isidore Marie Auguste François Xavier Comte
Gaston Bachelard ⓘ Henri Bergson ⓘ vitalist biology ⓘ |
| language | French ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
biology
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life ⓘ life sciences ⓘ normal and pathological ⓘ normativity ⓘ organism ⓘ vitalism ⓘ |
| notableFor |
developing a concept of normativity rooted in living beings
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influencing later work on biopolitics and medicine ⓘ |
| partOfAuthorWork | Canguilhem's studies on the normal and the pathological ⓘ |
| philosophicalFocus |
difference between living and non-living
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epistemology of biological science ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition |
French epistemology
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historical epistemology ⓘ |
| publicationCentury | 20th century ⓘ |
| titleTranslation |
The Knowledge of Life
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linked to:
La Connaissance de la vie
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linked to: La Connaissance de la vie