Jay_Louis t1_ja48zx6 wrote on February 26, 2023 at 6:57 PM

Reply to comment by Thompseanson7 in For birds all sex is anal sex. by Whats-Upvote

Got any grapes?

Jay_Louis t1_j9yecus wrote on February 25, 2023 at 1:59 PM

Reply to comment by Zeebuss in Reality is an openness that we can never fully grasp. We need closures as a means of intervening in the world. | Post-postmodern philosopher and critic of realism Hilary Lawson explains closure theory. by IAI_Admin

Some are trying out 'metamodern' which I hate

Jay_Louis t1_j9ye76k wrote on February 25, 2023 at 1:57 PM

Reply to comment by GrogramanTheRed in Reality is an openness that we can never fully grasp. We need closures as a means of intervening in the world. | Post-postmodern philosopher and critic of realism Hilary Lawson explains closure theory. by IAI_Admin

Or the foundational Jewish belief about God. Jews write G-d to remind that even the name isn't comprehensible, language itself is incomplete, early Derridean theory 3000 years before Derrida

Jay_Louis t1_j9ydvbq wrote on February 25, 2023 at 1:54 PM

Reply to comment by averagedebatekid in Reality is an openness that we can never fully grasp. We need closures as a means of intervening in the world. | Post-postmodern philosopher and critic of realism Hilary Lawson explains closure theory. by IAI_Admin

Kant's sublime is unknowable. Burke as well. There's nothing new in philosophical theories that accept limitations on what can be understood

Jay_Louis t1_j2etwpn wrote on December 31, 2022 at 7:08 PM

Reply to comment by praeqsheria in I read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and I didn't find a deeper meaning in the story. Am I dumb? by -greek_user_06-

Whether or not an author intends a specific meaning, that does not mean that the meaning isn't there. Roland Barthes discussed this in the 1960s. We always assume author/artist intent is the only proper way to understand something. That discounts how meaning is generated contextually - by the way in which the text is received and reflects the cultural context in which it is produced and consumed. Many artists can barely verbalize why they make art. Relying on them to tell you how to understand something is restrictive and simplistic.