This is a continuation, perhaps a summation, of some strands of thoughts that have existed piecemeal in comments and philosophic posts recently.
In his ‘Philosophical Investigations’, Wittgenstein writes:
“(108) We see that what we call “sentence” and “language” has not the formal unity that I imagined, but is the family of structures more or less related to [...]
I contend that these conceptualizations of how reasoning occurs are fundamentally divergent from the phenomena they are meant to signify.
[The following is an excerpt from my undergraduate thesis, which I am including on my blog for two reasons 1) I am lazy and need to copy from myself 2) there are some key reference points in this passage that I will refer to in latter discussions on aesthetics. My past thoughts on aesthetics [...]
The following is an abridged manicured version of several hours of messenger correspondence between me and Brody from the Christian Cynic, on the topic of ‘truth’. For the most part it is me using the thought experiment medium to convey my arguments for ‘doublethink’ and the pluralism of ‘truth’, with Brody keeping a keen [...]
By virtue of its own nature, reason must play a limited role in acts of deliberation; used puritanically without appeal, reason as a human quality ceases to be reasonable. I find it absurd to even think of reason existing in someone’s mind somehow quarantined from everything else, as if consciously we could micro-manage the [...]
Spend time reading books at your level of expertise – it is important that it does not feel like a chore to read, it is important not to sabotage development by imposing some preconception of what ‘learning’ entails. The gradation of learning can be so faint that in the process all anxieties about learning [...]
I want to untangle the lines of communication if only partially in order to address a higher level issue that so often goes unsaid (my sense of decorum is already flaring up and I haven’t even started to transgress anything). I want to talk about the ego as it pertains to communication. I [...]
“about the four hundred and fiftieth year of his age, or latter end of his childhood, he dissected a great number of small insects not more than one hundred feet in diameter, which are not perceivable by ordinary microscopes, of which he composed a very curious treatise, which involved him in some trouble’ – Voltaire
In [...]
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