Epistemology

[Kizmet]

One more.
Ask her if it can look up... 'cos I think big Al is full of shit.

Tell her, if it pops out of existence, I'll buy her a ferret. They're pretty similar.

 

[bluestreak]

Dogs can look up. I'll post some pics later on if i remember.

 

[Dillinger4]

Dogs are merely autonotom's

 

[Kizmet]

Dogs can look up. I'll post some pics later on if i remember.

What.. directly upwards?

Cool.. because I think it's crap.. but I can't think of a dog to prove it.

 

[bodach]

She also says that any further philosophical experiments on her dogs should will not be sanctioned.

Who'll know?

 

[Kizmet]

@ bodach.

You fancy telling me what was contradictory about what I was saying? I'd appreciate it.

 

[bodach]

I prefer to go for the one that gives me the best view of whatever it is I want to look at.

As many as you want.

@ bodach.

You fancy telling me what was contradictory about what I was saying? I'd appreciate it.

In the first quote you narrow your perspectives.

 

[Kizmet]

In the first quote you narrow your perspectives.

I can't see any contradiction there.

Your perspective is your point of view of something... you can only have one point of view of a thing... it may involve lots of different 'views' and every time you see things from a different perspective.. it changes yours about that subject (if you let it) but you can only have one perspective - yours. The more it allows you to see... the better.

 

[Dillinger4]

I didn't think this thread could get any worse.

But it has, it has.

 

[bodach]

I can't see any contradiction there.

Your perspective is your point of view of something... you can only have one point of view of a thing... it may involve lots of different 'views' and every time you see things from a different perspective.. it changes yours about that subject (if you let it) but you can only have one perspective - yours. The more it allows you to see... the better.

I couldn't have put that better myself.

 

[Kizmet]

 

[bodach]

I didn't think this thread could get any worse.

But it has, it has.

Would that be an epistemological perspective.

 

[Dillinger4]

Would that be an epistemological perspective.

I don't know, would it?

 

[bodach]

I don't know, would it?

Just by replying, you've answered your own question.

 

[Dillinger4]

 

[bluestreak]

Dogs are merely autonotom's

feck off descartes

 

[max_freakout]

it was good while it lasted.....

 

[Dillinger4]

No it wasn't.

 

[bluestreak]

it was good while it lasted.....

 

[Kizmet]

No it wasn't.

You loved it... you slaaag.

 

[Dillinger4]

 

[Jonti]

Yesterday on the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there,
He wasn't there again today,
I wish to God he'd go away.

There is this fellow in my hair,
Who actually, really isn't there,
He isn't there every single day,
I wish to God he'd go away.

The mightiest efforts, everything I could spare,
To get myself out of my very own hair,
All to no avail, there wasn't a single day,
That I had this dirty fellow out of my way.

It's all a mighty joke, it's hugely unfair,
He never was, this man who wasn't there,
And so who was to think, who was to say,
That he had really gone away???

source

 

[max_freakout]

 

[max_freakout]

No it wasn't.

well it certainly grabbed your attention right through to the bitter end

 

[Kizmet]

well it certainly grabbed your attention right through to the bitter end

The lady doth protest too much...

 

[Dillinger4]

Crabs would have my attention to the bitter end as well.

They would probably have more understanding of philosophy and its nuances, and be far less irritating than you on this thread.

I have mentioned I am reading Merleau-Ponty at the moment. You would like him, max. He has a chapter on mescaline users, and says that the synethesia experianced by them is actually the unfiltered experiance of perception. It is a central part of his philosophy, in fact. Bodily Intentionality.

 

[max_freakout]

i attended a lecture course on Merleau-Ponty but it didnt grab my attention much, and no mention was made of mescaline

Sartre took mescaline and allegedly he based his book 'Nausea' on the experience he had

 

[Dillinger4]

I would say, out of Merleau-Ponty and Sartre, Merleau-Ponty has the better argument.

 

[bluestreak]

[thick]what's synethesia? [/thick]

 

[max_freakout]

[thick]what's synethesia? [/thick]

re-organization of perception so that you can see sound, hear colour, taste emotions etc

fairly commonly reported experience with psychedelic drugs, and it is incredibly profound