Tuesday, December 14, 2004
In an appreciation of Quine, KC Mulville gets snippety:
Philosophy shouldn't be a difficult subject. What makes it difficult is reading the poor writing of philosophers. Anyone who reads Hegel or Heidegger winds up on the floor, clutching the rug in agony. (An example: "The nothing of Nothingness nothings..." Deep. Get me a noose.)Hey, tautologies tautologize. Or it might just be the absence of love.
So we don't know anything¶ 7:52 PM
You don't know anything
I don't know anything
about love
But we are nothing
You are nothing
I am nothing
Without love
--The Death Of Ferdinand De Saussure, The Magnetic Fields
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Unlike the author of that "appreciation," I guess I would be embarrassed to allow anything with my name on it to be placed on a Web site called "Useless Knowledge."
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: 8:59 PM
: 8:59 PM
I figured "Useless Knowledge" was intended along the lines of a zen koan. For example take the case of Joshu's Dog, AKA The Koan No, Wu (Chinese) or Mu (Japanese).
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