[lit-ideas] Re: Tasting: the preparatory text
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- Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 07:22:27 +0200
On 18-Jul-09, at 7:50 PM, Walter C. Okshevsky wrote:
A transcendental ego walks into a bar, and says, ...
An effort, it no doubt is. (What isn't?) But I'm expecting much
better stuff
from this List than that. Anyone? We could also add: "An empiricist
walks into
a bar ..." And then why not: "An Aristotelian walks into a
bar ...." A
Cartesian, a Heideggerian, an Anselmian (what?), a Logical
Positivist ... The
possibilities are almost endless.
W.V. Quine walks into a bar and says,
"Ouch!"
Chris Bruce
back in
Kiel, Germany
P.S: "'Ouch' is a one-word sentence which a man may offer from time to
time by way of laconic comment on the passing show." W.V. Quine, WORD
AND OBJECT (M.I.T. Press, 1964), p. 5.
-cb
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