|
i like most of what jinn says above and had thought along similar lines, though without the notion of "materialism" that somehow precludes recursive thinking about, say, the relations between categories and definitions of objects of knowledge (say for example the notion of scale, which creates an idea of discreteness, of separation between scales--turns out that among the most vexing problems for understanding complex systems is how different scales interact---and it's possible that the problem follows from the ways in which the category "scale" creates boundaries that result from the category rather than from what is categorised. but i digress).
seems to me that the part/whole distinction presupposes that "reality" can be understood as a thing.
i don't buy it.
__________________
a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
|