why it appeals to me to write in a mode thatmight appear frivo
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On 08/12/2006, at 12:05 PM, Tympan Segment wrote:
> A literary device that is horrible peter, can I call you Pirate? An
> appearance is probably as bad as frivolity and ignorance on a
> philosophy list concerned with the truth which after all does not
> tolerate the non-fictional.
Que? Are you saying your philosophy doesn’t tolerate non-fictional
truth? In which case you would be perfectly at home playing with the
appearance of truth. Or are you saying truth should only be tolerated
when expressed in logical non-fictional terms? All mere rhetorical
play and any use of metaphor would then be merely a Nietzchean vanity
and a ‘horrible device’?
I can’t really see the difference either way, there are the terms we
use to explicate what’s being talked about … and then there’s
what’s being talked about, the phenomena themselves. All
philosophical text is a metaphorical device as far as I’m concerned,
and there are as many paths to tread towards the forest clearing as
there are Dasein.
We’re all drifters in language.
Cheers,
Malcolm
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Dr Malcolm Riddoch
Electronic Arts
School of Communications and Contemporary Arts
Faculty of Communications and Creative Industries
Edith Cowan University, 2 Bradford St, Mount Lawley
Perth Western Australia http://soca.ecu.edu.au/mriddoch/
