The study is focused on space of attic room in the prose Z deníku sedmnáctileté Perly Sch., Colette: Dívka z Antverp, Krásné zelené oči, which for the characters made not only a vision of refuge from the outside world, but presented also a place of dreaming and remembering the times before World War II. The parts of each space are things which are also involved in overall nature of the space and on the what measure this object are entered to the awareness of the characters which will use the things not only for their own need, but these things also become a means enabling the characters to think back about past times. In accordance with the performed analysis we can conclude that the objects are not mere props that fill the almost empty space, but they are bearers of substance and that they also have their own ontological existence.
In his treatise Die Grundlagen der Arithmetik, Gottlob Frege tries to find a definition of a number. First, he rejects the idea that the number could be a property of external (empirical) objects. Then he comes with a suggestion that a numerical statement expresses a property of a concept, namely it indicates how many objects fall under the concept. Subsequently Frege rejects, or at least essentially modifies, also this definition, because in his view a number cannot be a property - it should be an object. The article tries to show that Frege's first definition of number seems to be, despite his own opinion, much more promising than he supposed. It also argues that Frege's argumentation against the (possibly) empirical character of number is by no means convincing.
The author traces the road Dewey covered when he tried to free himself from a traditional ontology and epistemology. He made completely change understanding of the concept of experience. In the second part, author shows what it is meant to be “true”/“false” in the pragmatist logic and epistemology. It is indicated by explication of Dewey’s up-to-date conception of perception and knowledge. The role of action is stressed there. In the third part, the author explains why our traditional approach to thinking could not accept this pragmatist understanding. He introduces there Dewey’s analysis of the old Greek idea of knowledge as seeing finalities of the “true world”. In the semi-final part, the author articulates Dewey’s conception of “ecological paradigm” that could be seen as a final liberation from the old, powerful, yet false tradition of the separate objects ontology. There the conception of situational ontology is presented. In the last part, he summarizes a new understanding of knowledge, truth and situational ontology and thus determines a new meaning of experience. There, the experience there is understood as a not-subjective field of powers that cross back and forth borders of objects in a process of achieving equilibrium.
In January 2009, a surprising number of artworks or, as the artist called them, 'art-makings' - drawings, paintings and objects - were found in Visvaldis Ziedins' house. 1185 items were listed in Ziedins' art collection during work on this article. Information is still being gathered on the collection and the article is just the beginning of this research process. Visvaldis Ziedins was born on 4 April 1942 and died on 11 January 2007 in Liepaja. From 1959 to 1964 he studied at the Interior Design Department of the Liepaja Secondary School of Applied Arts. After graduation he enrolled as a painter at a motor transport depot but later started to work as artist-decorator at the 'Kurzeme' department store in Liepaja. In his spare time he created surprising 'art-makings'. Apart from participation in Liepaja artists' group exhibitions, Ziedins had three solo shows during his lifetime which were held in Liepaja in 1968, 1986 and 1992.Considering Ziedins' heritage from the historical viewpoint, his most active and interesting period coincides the gloomy Soviet time. However, the historical excursus should begin with the gains during the 'thaw' when the partial relaxation of the political regime also brought changes to culture. 'Legitimate' contacts with the rest of the world are resumed in this period. Up till now Zenta Logina, Lidija Auza and Ojars Abols were credited with being the first Latvian artists to complement their works with sand, metal slivers, glass shards and everyday objects or their fragments since the mid-1960s. Now Ziedins has to be added to this list as he had already started to form spatial compositions involving cement and lime mortar and everyday items in the early 1960s. Ziedins' diaries reveal that he studied the works of both the classical modernists and Latvian masters.
In the year 2013 and 2014 there was carried out an archaeological excavation for scientific and documentation purposes in Čierne Kľačany, location Pri mlyne. The area of the settlement was identified by geophysical measurement, according to which there were selected, and after that excavated, houses foundations belonging to the Lengyel culture located in the south-western part of the settlement. There was collected vast and variable pottery from different time periods during the both working seasons. Except of the Stone Age settlement pits and foundations of Lengyel culture houses with the channels for poles, some objects from the Late Bronze Age and Early Hallstatt Period were also found. There was excavated also a part of Linear culture object: ditch or a moat, 2 m wide and 60 cm deep, with flat bottom indicating, that it’s construction was not finished. Beside the huge amount of Lusatian culture finds, pottery material from the area of Central Danubian and probably also south-eastern Urnfield cultures was identified. Even the poor number of Urnfield cultures settlement pits found in this area, the potsherds was easily differentiated and was dated in the chronological phases HB – HC.
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