Why tragedy? --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505
505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Wed, Aug 5, 2020, 12:05 PM jon zingale <[email protected]> wrote: > FWIW, I occasionally entertain the idea of a *Universal Grammar* for > belief[⍦]. > The idea being that there may be some genetic component of the belief > faculty, > and that by analogy to universal grammar, one acquires competence in one's > own > beliefs through performance[⌂][◇]. At any moment, a person makes decisions > and > suffers the reality that they did or did not believe what they thought they > might. Here, I am defining belief more narrowly than most. For me, beliefs > are > necessarily discovered, and not the kind of thing one 'discovers' by > considering > hypotheticals. Alternatively, it feels wonderful to reject *-archies in > favor > of rhizomatic thought[⍼], à la, "A Thousand Plateaus". Taken together, an > invigorating experience akin to visiting a sauna with a cold plunge. > > [⍦] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_grammar > > [◇] The connection I am drawing to Glen's linked paper is to: > 1. similarities between alethic and doxastic modalities. > 2. highlighted tensions between constructivist and analytical modalities. > > [⌂] I think of a theory of this kind as weakly rejecting the notion of > Peircean > truth. Different individuals, with different biologically determined > universal > belief structures, would ultimately believe different things in the long > run. > What would be considered truth, in the long run, could only then be a > tragedy > of intersectional beliefs. > > [⍼] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhizome_(philosophy) > > > > -- > Sent from: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC <http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/FRIAM-COMIC> > http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >
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