Honestly, I don't think that life has a 'meaning' either, even though I am
not a French structuralist. Meaning is something that belongs to words or
symbols, not to lives.
O.K.
On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 2:00 PM, Torgeir Fjeld <torgeir_fjeld@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:
QUsetion for the bright minds of literati:
When the French structuralists proclaim that we should abandon our quest
for meaning (of leben) does that mean/intale or even imply that there is
not one meaning to be found so that there's mani meanings or that there's
none at all?
In the latterest case, would a proponent of such a position be qualified
to the value-laden term NIHILIST (-ghasp!-)
Med vennlig hilsen / Yours sincerely,
Torgeir Fjeld
http://independent.academia.edu/TorgeirFjeld
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[lit-ideas] Re: Once
in a blue moon
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Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 19:05:17 -0500
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Once in a blue moon
From: Mike Geary <jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx>
Quoting from Omar's post: "Very occasionally, the moon
actually does appear
to be blue."
I don't know which philosopher it is, but surely one
of them out there
echoes my contention that if the moon "appears" blue then
the moon is
blue. Is is as is, not as it "really" is under some
other circumstance.
In fact, considering that color is but the name given to a
certain
frequency of electromagnetic radiation that is visible (to
most humans) there's
no such thing as the "true" color of anything. Color
is predicated only of
objects that reflect electromagnetic radiation and then only
when the
reflected radiation is apprehended by the sight
sensors. So the moon is
sometimes white, sometimes blue, sometimes orange, sometimes
redish,
sometimes otherwise. The moon has no COLOR it has
reflectors only. Now my
contention is that ALL the rest of our experiences of the
world are of the
same problematic schema. We deal with it as it appears
to us at this or
that time, never, knowingly, never as it truly
is. Truth has varying
wavelengths. We are but our senses. Amen. Yes, I do
love the term:
"electromagnetic radiation". In fact, I genuflect to it
though I hardly
know what it means.
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Vaguely interesting.
>
> http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/once-in-a-blue-moon.html
>
>
> Very occasionally, the moon actually does appear to be
blue. This
> sometimes occurs after a volcanic eruption, like that
of Krakatao in 1883.
> Dust particles in the atmosphere are normally of a size
to diffract blue
> light, making the moon appear reddish at sunset. Larger
volcanic dust
> particles diffract red light, making the moon appear
bluish.
>
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