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 Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 4:55 pm
Alright, so I became unlazy and found out that it's Back bacon. At least, that's what I call it.
EDIT: And, in spite of popular belief, the name is not limited...
.....to John Candy
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Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 4:55 pm
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Eloquent Conversationalist
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Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 4:55 pm
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Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 4:56 pm
Canadian bacon is better by default. D=<
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Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 4:57 pm
*Captures both he and the gas in an air tight bubble*
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Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 4:58 pm
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Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 4:58 pm
Dragosani Kain *Captures both he and the gas in an air tight bubble* *casts a spell to switch places with him*
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Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 4:58 pm
The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term. Under 'things in the broadest possible sense' I include such radically different items as not only 'cabbages and kings', but numbers and duties, possibilities and finger snaps, aesthetic experience and death. To achieve success in philosophy would be, to use a contemporary turn of phrase, to 'know one's way around' with respect to all these things, not in that unreflective way in which the centipede of the story knew its way around before it faced the question, 'how do I walk?', but in that reflective way which means that no intellectual holds are barred.
Knowing one's way around is, to use a current distinction, a form of 'knowing how' as contrasted with 'knowing that'. There is all the difference in the world between knowing how to ride a bicycle and knowing that a steady pressure by the legs of a balanced person on the pedals would result in forward motion. Again, to use an example somewhat closer to our subject, there is all the difference in the world between knowing that each step of a given proof in mathematics follows from the preceding steps, and knowing how to find a proof. Sometimes being able to find a proof is a matter of being able to follow a set procedure; more often it is not. It can be argued that anything which can be properly called 'knowing how to do something' presupposes a body of knowledge that; or, to put it differently, knowledge of truth or facts. If this were so, then the statement that 'ducks know how to swim' would be as metaphorical as the statement that they know that water supports them. However this may be, knowing how to do something at the level of characteristically human activity presupposes a great deal of knowledge that, and it is obvious that the reflective knowing one's way around in the scheme of things, which is the aim of philosophy, presupposes a great deal of reflective knowledge of truths.
Now the subject-matter of this knowledge of truths which is presupposed by philosophical 'know-how', falls, in a sense, completely within the scope of the special disciplines. Philosophy in an important sense has no special subject-matter which stands to it as other subject matters stand to other special disciplines. If philosophers did have such a special subject-matter, they could turn it over to a new group of specialists as they have turned other special subject-matters to non-philosophers over the past 2500 years, first with mathematics, more recently psychology and sociology, and, currently, certain aspects of theoretical linguistics. What is characteristic of philosophy is not a special subject-matter, but the aim of knowing one's way around with respect to the subject-matters of all the special disciplines.
I AM A ROODY POO.
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Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 4:59 pm
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Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 5:00 pm
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Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 5:01 pm
Wow...Philosophy is so...
Verbose.
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Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 5:01 pm
*Drops a colony on Darsh*
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Eloquent Conversationalist
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Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 5:01 pm
AND THEE WAS RENDERED SPEECHLESS
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Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 5:02 pm
Ryugi Kazamaru *Drops a colony on Darsh* *becomes the king, turns it into an empire* *drops a Death Star on Ryugi*
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Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 5:02 pm
*Counters Zets*
V Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is it vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished, as the once vital voice of the verisimilitude now venerates what they once vilified. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose vis-à-vis an introduction, and so it is my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.
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