Poems are theories of human experience. (or) Poems are recipes whose ingredients are emotions. (or) Poems, not emotions, are the principal components of human experience. That there are an infinite number of them — that so many remain undiscovered — is a terrifying and lonely fact. But it is also a reason to keep writing.
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The question of metaphysical causation is usually dismissed, as I understand it, by denying its existence in favor of the more skeptical, less inferential assertion which says that all that exists is a reliable temporal relationship. I would not deny that, but would reframe the problem in terms of an underlying physical structure, by which . . . → Read More: Causation and time Is there anything wrong with using language to describe the failures of language? No. In a room with no windows, the light of a candle is all that allows us to see that the light will eventually go out. The SEP article on the Philosophy of Neuroscience, says that eliminative materialism (EM) says that folk psychology (FP) is “flawed beyond significant revision.” The example is when I ask you why Marica is not accompanying you this evening, you reply that she has a grant deadline looming. This entails the notion that Marica’s beliefs and . . . → Read More: Materialism & folk psych A man’s shelf is full of books the way an artist’s is full of tubes of paint. The value lies not in knowing their contents, but in using them. |
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