continued
The stranglehold of the Wiener Kreis on Harvard philosophy may at last be breaking:
"… imagination and belief are related…. belief presupposes imagination…."
"To negate the actual is to move imaginatively into the realm of modality. Logic is all about the entertaining of possibilities."
"… imagination is central to an account of linguistic understanding. To understand a sentence is to imaginatively grasp the possibility it represents."
— Colin McGinn, excerpt (pdf) from Mindsight: Image, Dream, Meaning, published by Harvard University Press on November 22, 2004
From Four Quartets:
And the pool was filled
with water out of sunlight,
And the lotos rose, quietly, quietly,
The surface glittered out of heart of light…
Let us swear an oath, and keep it with an equal mind,
In the hollow Lotos-land to live and lie reclined
On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind.
From The LOTOS-Eaters
Comment by BlueCollarGoddess — Wednesday, March 30, 2005 @ 12:18 am
Awesome…always on the same wavelength; but you always take it to the next level!
I have downloaded the PDF, I may even purchase the book. 🙂
Comment by NickyJett — Thursday, March 31, 2005 @ 9:00 am