[lit-ideas] Re: Relations Break Down Between U.S. And Them

  • From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 18:53:09 -0230

There's a synchronycitous occurence! I just spent an entire class today
explaining the nature of conceptual analysis. My basic point was the same as
the Skipper's: the meaning of any single concept is internally related to many
other concepts, along with the inferential relations entailed by that nexus. 

We looked at standard JTB theory ("knowledge that" as justified, true, belief)
and, as a further illustration, we also tried to differentiate between
different kinds of love - i.e., agape, romantic love, sexual infatuation,
courtly love, etc.. The thesis that you cannot experience any of these forms of
love without already having the requisite conceptual apparatus was denied by a
student in the front row who insisted that she did not need to have a concept
of an orgasm in order to have an orgasm. (There's one in every class!) 

Walter O.
MUN


Quoting Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> A Friend Recommends A Page From The OnionFor some reason (stupidity?) it took
> me a minute to realize that "U.S." was 'us' -- as in "us against them". 
> Clever as the article is, what fascinated me was that once I saw "U.S." as
> 'us', the word 'us' suddenly seemed bizarrely meaningless -- like when you're
> a kid and repeat a word over and over to yourself until it becomes totally
> meaningless -- I hope I'm not the only one who's done this -- naw, we're all
> cut from the same cloth.  Language is such a sweet, gift, so tenuous, so
> explosive, so soul-wrenching and so wonderfully playful.  I'm so glad I'm not
> a cat.
> 
> 
> Mike Geary
> Memphis
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