In a message dated 12/30/08 5:51:49 PM, [email protected] writes: > Phenomenolgy is about the mind representations of the reality we can never > attain directly. If it's mind, it's fiction (an as-if make-believe). When I > say mind, I am not implying a brain-independent condition. This is not a > far-fetched goofball idea. Husserl is a start. > As a student one is taught it started even earlier: with Kant and his notion that the "noumenal" world is forever "unknowable", and all our brain can entertain is the phenomenal world. Indeed he said such elements of awareness as time, space, causation are contributions of our minds, and we have no reason to believe they obtain in the noumenal world.
Do you want to take a shot at the question I put? Perhaps I can sharpen by asking, do you feel "Snow White" and "Newman is Dead" are EQUALLY "fiction"? > > > > > > >Occasionally I have seen words effectively murdered by > > over-stretching them > > >-- for example, 'obscene' and > > 'awesome'. > > > > > >William, can you conceive of any notion you'd call > > non-fiction? > > > > > >If you can't, then what word would use in trying to > > convey a distinction > > >between an entirely made-up story like SNOW WHITE AND > > THE SEVEN DWARFS, and > > >a > > >so-called "fact" like PAUL NEWMAN DIED THIS > > YEAR or THE EMPIRE STATE > > >BUILDING > > >IS > > >IN NEW YORK CITY? > ************** One site keeps you connected to all your email: AOL Mail, Gmail, and Yahoo Mail. Try it now. (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp& icid=aolcom40vanity&ncid=emlcntaolcom00000025)
