Sender: |
|
Date: |
Sun, 1 Jan 2006 05:31:31 -0800 |
MIME-version: |
1.0 |
Reply-To: |
|
Content-type: |
text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed |
Subject: |
|
From: |
|
In-Reply-To: |
|
Content-transfer-encoding: |
7BIT |
Parts/Attachments: |
|
|
ROFLMAO!
Happy New Year to All!
][<
[log in to unmask] wrote:
> Ken wrote :I was contemplating that Jaques Derrida said that the trust
> in the correspondence of words to reality, the disconnect of word and
> Logos, was lost in the 18th century Enlightenment whereas Ockham in 1323
> made a distinction between words and concepts
>
> I was reading Kens enlightenment on these three philosophers when the
> mail man came in ,
> Now the mail men and women around here are a throw back to the pony
> express rider so I decided to have a go at him and ask about Okkah
> Derrida ,and Wegenstien and see what he knew about them
>
> His name is Cornwallis, and so old Cornwallis thought about it , he
> stood there for a moment and put his hand on his chin then his eyes
> got like he had a revelation and in doing so went to the front door
> and let fly a warm stream of bacca out into the mornings dust on the
> dirt road .
> He returned wiping his chin, and informs me that he wasn't sure but
> He thought they lived up where Ticky bend crosses Bullet hole road"
> I laughed and he laughed too when I told him they were philosophers
> of the last century, .
> Then during the give and take of our conversation he told me that
> in school he read a lot of philosophy ,couldn't remember all the
> names ,but remembered many of the principals.
>
> "Which ones I asked ? "Well there was Mr. Phidelius ,...he used to
> paddle us if we were late "'
> No --no Cornwallis I implored "The philosophers "
> ..Oh the philosophers . I can't remember names but I remember one
> central piece of philosophy central to all of Humanity ' " Its help
> guide me "
> "What's that ?"I asked half expecting something from Freud
> Old Cornwallis thought about it so he could get it right ,then said
> "I stink, therefore I am ".
>
> I think he got it right...Happy new Year Py
--
To terminate puerile preservation prattling among pals and the
uncoffee-ed, or to change your settings, go to:
<http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/bullamanka-pinheads.html>
|
|
|