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Ggermaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.True, he is very dry and very reductive, but his answer would be that he's focusing on the aspects that are truly important and eschews...
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Ggermaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.Not really, but as I understand, it's some sort of unique way to take notes, yeah? I actually get the impression that he is much more...
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Ggermaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.What cleared this up form me was reading Niklas Luhmann where he really convinced me that the last proper break in the smooth continuum...
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Ggermaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.That is maybe you point that these sort of tiny imprecisions accumulate and you end up with pretty useless, lousy linguistic tools...
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Ggermaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.It arbitrarily introduces some sort of break or divergence in what is essentially pretty straightforward continuum.
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Ggermaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.The term itself is kind of confused and confusing; and now people are going even further talking about metamodernity...
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Ggermaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.So - as I understand - your point is that there is some sort of real raw Reality or call it Truth out there and then there are all sorts...
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Ggermaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.It does seem kind of hollow these days, yeah.
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Ggermaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.There is an obvious answer if you want to escape this predicament (if one sees it as predicament, of course) which is obviously...
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Ggermaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.But is it such a bad thing? This is the issue that's been adressed by pragmatists/neo-pragmatists (Rorty being the central one) and also...
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Ggermaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.the basic problem was and is that the post-modern theory was bound to get caught up in endless self-referential loop because it didn't...
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Ggermaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.Read Niklas Luhmann, read "You Must Change Your Life" by Peter Sloterdijk and read some pragmatists/neo-pragmatists with William James...
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Ggermaphobian replied to the thread Best First Lines.Pay your rates Pay your water rates
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Ggermaphobian replied to the thread THE VITAL ILLUSION.Yeah, and the inhabitants of first known city - Jericho - were actually hunter gatherers although the theory states that people settled...