Not equally. No two events are ever equal, regardless of one being more or less fantastic than the other (lacking more demonstrable evidence, and Snow White, I'd venture is as real as that movie star in many aspects).
As a philosopher, why do you tend to reduce all questions to an either/or opposition? What happened to nuance? Are all philosophical questions either round holes or square holes? Don't philosophers try to square the circle at all, ever? And if so, don't they show how false oppositions morph into greater complexities? WC --- On Tue, 12/30/08, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Malcolm Gladwell and beliefs > To: [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, December 30, 2008, 5:17 PM > 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)
