And if we were to discover that knowledge was actually carried around in a
little satchel heretofore unoticed around the neck of each person, what of
it? Epistemology is more interestingly defined as the study of how we come
to knowledge. This includes how knowledge we already possess is used in a
social scientific practice which aims at illumination, but often as a
consequence obscures and even consciously represses. Tell me knowledge is
something which is imbued in the King and you have said something
significant. Tell me reason hangs on trees like apples and I will be rapt.
Tell me truth is only arrived at by passing through the hoops of scientific
method and we will have a conversation ahead of us.
>One problem with this list is that most of the people who are
>worth talking to shrink back vigorously from the sort of
>polemics that you'd think most people who enjoy reading N >would enjoy
>reading,
Time is short. I seek enlightenment and would prefer not to sift through
mounds of adolescent ejaculatory detritus to get to it. Great style is one
thing. Wanking is another.
What will you do with your knowledge, once you have discovered its hiding
place and it's habits of movement through the body and through history? It
is to this question that Nietzsche most often turned, and this is the
source of my interest in him.
regards
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