Gary's Corner

[Immanuel Can]

Human beings have always been capable of philosophy and logic without ever emulating anybody in particular.

Maybe. But if so, Aristotle explained, for the first time...

Like any human being, he spoke from his perspective and ideas.

No, he analyzed what logic is, and how it has to be formed. Only somebody who doesn't understand logic would think it was just "his perspective an ideas." It was no more that than mathematics or science is. It was analysis of the basic structure of rational thought.

[Lacewing]

Maybe. But if so, Aristotle explained, for the first time...

Like any human being, he spoke from his perspective and ideas.

No, he analyzed what logic is, and how it has to be formed. Only somebody who doesn't understand logic would think it was just "his perspective an ideas." It was no more that than mathematics or science is. It was analysis of the basic structure of rational thought.

GLORY BE to all that Immanuel Can follows and worships! It is the only truth! It is all there is! It must be so! The desperation of such zealots demands it!

[Walker]

I said:

A wise man knows he knows nothing.

It's one well-known view of philosophy. Fools are the ones who think they know everything. They are closed-off from broader awareness.

Does the broad awareness account for ... something?
You and the wise man reference "everything", and you mention "nothing".

You forgot to account for something.

How the hell did that go unnoticed through the view of the wide angle lens?

[Walker]

Like any human being, he spoke from his perspective and ideas.

No, he analyzed what logic is, and how it has to be formed. Only somebody who doesn't understand logic would think it was just "his perspective an ideas." It was no more that than mathematics or science is. It was analysis of the basic structure of rational thought.

GLORY BE to all that Immanuel Can follows and worships! It is the only truth! It is all there is! It must be so! The desperation of such zealots demands it!

Shades of Hasan Piker singing, recently linked in this very forum.

[Walker]

(continued)

What with all the talk about everything and nothing, I suppose reality (something) often gets sacrificed to the big picture.