November 2010
6 posts
“Consciousness does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. Such words as...”
– William James, 1890
“The imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.”
– Immanuel Kant
Me: “Can you tell me what purpose this university rule serves, Dr. X?”
Dr. X: “I’ve been here 35 years and the rule has been here as long as I have.”
Me: “I guess that means, ‘I don’t know, and all the people who did know are dead now.’”
“While I was trying, and failing, to make sense of all this, the second thing of...”
– Stanley Fish