Questions for inquiring minds; or ... something like that
I learn by word vomit. No. Seriously. I learn by opening my mouth, vomiting words, and then trying to figure out what the hell I'm saying while I'm saying it. This is apparently not all that unique, which I suppose is a good thing, though in practice it must lead to something of a headache for the non-word-vomit-y ones. I try to be at least vaguely clear in my posts, which is why I don't update very often.
I want to make a bingo card of philosophical/theoretical terms. On it will be words like "hegemony" and "knowledge" and "dialectic" and all of those words which are gloriously imprecise and mean everything and nothing all at the same time.
How are you anything but an absolutist if you believe there is one best answer? We're constantly undermined by absolutism. Even the most extreme relativism depends on one absolutist remark for it's groundwork. It is possible to escape absolutely and should we even bother trying?
Also, when someone says "most well-known detective within the western tradition" does anyone else thing of Batman rather than Sherlock Holmes?
Clearly I should not be allowed on LJ when I have barely slept.
I want to make a bingo card of philosophical/theoretical terms. On it will be words like "hegemony" and "knowledge" and "dialectic" and all of those words which are gloriously imprecise and mean everything and nothing all at the same time.
How are you anything but an absolutist if you believe there is one best answer? We're constantly undermined by absolutism. Even the most extreme relativism depends on one absolutist remark for it's groundwork. It is possible to escape absolutely and should we even bother trying?
Also, when someone says "most well-known detective within the western tradition" does anyone else thing of Batman rather than Sherlock Holmes?
Clearly I should not be allowed on LJ when I have barely slept.