[lit-ideas] Re: It is worth a story ...
- From: David Ritchie <profdritchie@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 04:31:42 -0700
On Jun 11, 2012, at 10:42 PM, cblists@xxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> On 12-Jun-12, at 12:36 AM, David Ritchie wrote:
>
>> ... Should someone, I wonder, begin a petition drive to sponsor a memorial
>> to the Ignorant of History? They too must have had virtues, grandmothers,
>> cute children. ... [Entertaining cat and ignorant neighbour story follows.]
>
> Cf.: "Writer Thomas Pynchon articulated about the scope and structure of
> one's ignorance: 'Ignorance is not just a blank space on a person's mental
> map. It has contours and coherence, and for all I know rules of operation as
> well. So as a corollary to [the advice of] writing about what we know, maybe
> we should add getting familiar with our ignorance, and the possibilities
> therein for writing a good story.'"
This reminds me of a young German historian who urged us to write about what
was missing from the archives, histories of gaps. Negative space is difficult
to describe.
David Ritchie,
Peaceful Villas,
Not Bearing Horses by the Water,
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- References:
- [lit-ideas] Grice on the alethic
- [lit-ideas] Re: Grice on the alethic
- [lit-ideas] It is worth a theorem, which is not the p minimal adequacy, since as it is, it is inconsistent. Hence Alfred Tajtelbaum, known to the ignorant of history as "tarski" proved that there exists a hierarchy such that the minimal adequacy is satisfied. That is in the "concept of truth in L" by the way studying helps.
- [lit-ideas] Re: It is worth a theorem, which is not the p minimal adequacy, since as it is, it is inconsistent. Hence Alfred Tajtelbaum, known to the ignorant of history as "tarski" proved that there exists a hierarchy such that the minimal adequacy is satisfied. That is in the "concept of truth in L" by the way studying helps.
- [lit-ideas] Re: It is worth a theorem, which is not the p minimal adequacy, since as it is, it is inconsistent. Hence Alfred Tajtelbaum, known to the ignorant of history as "tarski" proved that there exists a hierarchy such that the minimal adequacy is satisfied. That is in the "concept of truth in L" by the way studying helps.
- [lit-ideas] It is worth a story ...
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