On Thursday, July 11, 2019 at 1:29:38 PM UTC-5, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: > > "A certain artist, having escaped from the lunatic asylum in which, > rightly or wrongly, he had be confined, purchased the materials of his > craft and set to work to make a complete picture of the universe." > > ... > > "The interpretation of this parable is sufficiently obvious. The artist > is trying to describe in his picture a creature equipped with all the > knowledge which he himself possesses, symbolizing that knowledge by the > picture which the pictured creature would draw. And it becomes > abundantly evident that the knowledge thus pictured must always be less > the than the knowledge employed in making the picture. In other words, > the mind which any human science can describe can never be an adequate > representation of the mind which can make that science. And the process > of correcting that inadequacy must follow the serial steps of an > infinite regress." > > > https://scienceforartists.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/artist-and-picture-by-j-w-dunne/ > >
In the wake of Kant. cf. Rorty, Goff. @philipthrift -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/1a212ed8-6ce7-4aa6-8c9c-f1716e327a6c%40googlegroups.com.
