DMB posted a large quote of James writings in this thread ... which very much reinforce the poetic neither / nor position ... but made no actual comment himself. Selections snipped here :
"The poetics of transition," suits William James's "radical empiricism," which assumes "a pluralistic universe" and is mainly concerned with the connections and transitions between things or states, rather than the things themselves. Jamesian philosophy is all about how things "hang together" "At the outset of my essay, I called it a mosaic philosophy. In actual mosaics the pieces are held together by their bedding, for which bedding the substances, transcendental egos, or absolutes of other philosophies may be taken to stand. In radical empiricism there is no bedding; it is as if the pieces clung together by their edges, the transitions experienced between them forming their cement." "Of course such a metaphor is misleading, for in actual experience the more substantive and the more transitive parts run into each other continuously; there is in general no separateness needing to be overcome by an external cement; and whatever separateness is actually experienced is not overcome." For reasons like these I fail to see (again) why there is any disagreement between say Matt and DMB and Marsha, other than an attitude / will to disagree. Life's a "metaphorical mosaic" old chum, But don't forget (reify) the metaphor please ! Ian On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 4:47 PM, david buchanan <[email protected]> wrote: > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
