Don’t worry if you don’t understand WTF. Neither does anyone else, including your professors.
Just quote them ever-so-importantly.
: )
Remember the well-written yet incomprehensible quote I sent your way once? That was from Anthony Wilden’s System and Structure.
That book is worth the getting-your-hands-on, if you can find a cheap copy.
And worth the reading of, in snippets, a few paragraphs at s time. He’s a bit if a stylist and does have something to say.
Ignore everything he says that has anything to do with Marx, Freud, or psychology tho. He was out of his depth, behind the times, and plain wrong, about those topics even when the book was published.
@f00l I had to read a bit about kant’s categorical imperative and his critique of pure reason on space/time section for a cosmology class, but I’ll definitely dive deeper
He had to do that, was made that way I guess; and the next gen had to build on that, as Kant built in what was there already
But these are insights into one way of looking at language and thought and truth; .
They are not language and thought and truth, and are not those, delineated or described, either.
That stuff does assist a bit in the real world where we work with concepts we can use. Social psychology, cognitive studies, linguistics, cultural anthropology, logic and language, etc, all have traces of these sorts of “great thinkers” in them.
Knowledge and conceptualization are a slow businesses. And ever expanding.
In the meantime, if you deal with that stuff, enjoy it.
The shipping can simultaneously be in a state of greatness and suckiness, and you wouldn’t know until you open the mailbox.
/giphy schrodinger’s cat
@narfcake You can be very wise sometimes.
If Meh ships a package, but you have not yet received it, is it truly in transit?
It can only be known to have been in transit once you receive it, but at that point it is no longer in transit.
If you have not received it, but Meh claims to have shipped it, then Pitney Bowes has it, which by definition means that it is not in transit.
Thus, Meh packages cannot be in transit.
Q.E.D.
@shahnm thank you, very funny!
@shahnm I chuckled.
Truly some hegelian dialectics at play here
@legendornothing
Hegel! Goody!
Now dip into some Heidegger and Kant.
Don’t worry if you don’t understand WTF. Neither does anyone else, including your professors.
Just quote them ever-so-importantly.
: )
Remember the well-written yet incomprehensible quote I sent your way once? That was from Anthony Wilden’s System and Structure.
That book is worth the getting-your-hands-on, if you can find a cheap copy.
And worth the reading of, in snippets, a few paragraphs at s time. He’s a bit if a stylist and does have something to say.
Ignore everything he says that has anything to do with Marx, Freud, or psychology tho. He was out of his depth, behind the times, and plain wrong, about those topics even when the book was published.
@f00l HAHAHAHA will do
@f00l I had to read a bit about kant’s categorical imperative and his critique of pure reason on space/time section for a cosmology class, but I’ll definitely dive deeper
@legendornothing
Don’t worry no one understands him in full.
He had to do that, was made that way I guess; and the next gen had to build on that, as Kant built in what was there already
But these are insights into one way of looking at language and thought and truth; .
They are not language and thought and truth, and are not those, delineated or described, either.
That stuff does assist a bit in the real world where we work with concepts we can use. Social psychology, cognitive studies, linguistics, cultural anthropology, logic and language, etc, all have traces of these sorts of “great thinkers” in them.
Knowledge and conceptualization are a slow businesses. And ever expanding.
In the meantime, if you deal with that stuff, enjoy it.