[lit-ideas] once in a dark cellar
- From: palma <palmaadriano@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 19:04:32 +0200
isaiah berlin told grice: speranza is a jerk
grice replied: I know, what can I do?
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 6:40 PM, dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <
dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> My last post today!
>
> Isaiah Berlin once told Grice, in a grave tone,
>
> "The fox knows many things; the hedgehog knows one big thing."
>
> In Kantian parlance, this transpires: The hedgehog has access to ONE
> noumenon; the fox to MANY.
>
> (what-is-known, or thought: noumenon).
>
> In a message dated 9/11/2014 11:28:43 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> palmaadriano@xxxxxxxxx writes:
> nobody knows what is the "own" noumena?
>
> Palma raises the point about the plural "noumena", versus the singular
> "noumenon".
>
> If 'noumenon' translates, roughly, in English, as "what is thought", one
> wonders about 'noumena'.
>
> "what-are-thought"
>
> sounds clumsy.
>
> This leads to the consideration about the _content_ of one's psychological
> attitudes.
>
> Suppose I think:
>
> "It is raining".
>
> "It is cold".
>
> I thus think, "It is raining and it is cold".
>
> I say, "It is raining".
>
> I say, "It is cold".
>
> Therefore, although I do not say "and", I _say_ (broadly) that it is
> raining and that it is cold.
>
> As the Greek Lexicon by Liddell/Scott notes, the verb from which
> 'noumenon' derives is best translated as 'mean'.
>
> And in considering the singular versus the plural forms of the content of
> one's thoughts one may find further enlightment as to what a noumenon is.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Speranza
>
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