[lit-ideas] Re: Why Is Academic Writing So Academic?
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 09:44:43 -0500 (EST)
I had sent the previous without checking my In Mail Box, and see that
McEvoy has indeed contributed to the discussion of the parallelism (based on
the
idea of a cultural norm) that Ritchie proposes between:
1. Academic writing is so academic that p.
2. The makers of garden benches are so stupid that q.
--- The keyword, Omar K. suggests, is "GARDENING", as practised by Witters.
Oddly, when Grice moved to the Berkeley hills, he developed an interest in
rock gardening, too.
In a message dated 3/1/2014 4:53:34 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
According to an unpublished paper, some of Wittgenstein's thoughts were
worked out as he sat overlooking his garden, and then subsequently amended.
"1. The garden is all that is the case.
1.1 The garden divides into plots.
"The limits of my garden are the limits of my world."
"Whereof we cannot plant, thereof we should pass over in silence".
His famous "beetle-in-the-box" arose from a time when he caught a ladybird
in a matchbox and then sat in his garden for several days opening and
closing the box. The "private language" argument was originally the "private
garden" argument, which Wittgenstein derived from reflecting on how it was not
logically possible to have a garden entirely closed off from public view.
I am tired now, as are you.
----
The idea that the garden and philosophy are associated is an interesting
one. ("Or not", as Geary would otiosely add). Note that 'garden' is cognate
with 'yard'. When the yard is behind a church, it is called a church-yard,
and surely Kierkegaard (whose surname means "Church garden") should be
cognisant of that.
Or not.
The topic of Gardening in Lit-Ideas is so fascinating that it should
deserve its own subject line. Or not.
Cheers,
Speranza
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