tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post6402274321993793229..comments2024-03-25T11:49:21.281-07:00Comments on The Splintered Mind: Confessional Philosophy (repost)Eric Schwitzgebelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11541402189204286449noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-55387267401364766562014-07-12T18:38:26.136-07:002014-07-12T18:38:26.136-07:00Possibly when trying to outline unknown areas (and...Possibly when trying to outline unknown areas (and make their unknown, known), perhaps? Kind of need to outline void spaces - can't exactly fill them without contradicting that, but describing an absence in personal capacity might help sort of draw a circle around an unknown area. Anyway, hope the fever is easing, Eric :)Callan S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/15373053356095440571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-36341182568532916552014-07-12T10:26:21.497-07:002014-07-12T10:26:21.497-07:00Not as practical as standard exposition in most ca...Not as practical as standard exposition in most cases, I think, Callan, which is why it's an uncommon approach. But in some cases, it might serve a specific aim that exposition could not as easily serve -- I think perhaps especially for a certain form of skepticism. Only when exposition would not serve as well would I recommend a confessional approach.Eric Schwitzgebelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11541402189204286449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-17081765029484995932014-07-12T00:07:15.565-07:002014-07-12T00:07:15.565-07:00Hi Eric,
Well that's a bit more confronting, ...Hi Eric,<br /><br />Well that's a bit more confronting, then! For myself I wonder as to the practical use of it, just perse? I get caveats of personal fallability (though those sometimes seem a bit stale), but without an aim? Certainly one scrabbles for spotlight time enough as is (or perhaps less if one has students). Or atleast that's how my thought process, like a bunch of toys tumbling down the spiral stairwell of practicality, thinks! Hope my posts aren't annoying, just trying to lob something back from my side of the net, so to speak :)Callan S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/15373053356095440571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-25646636974407818812014-07-10T11:21:03.421-07:002014-07-10T11:21:03.421-07:00Thanks for the suggestion, Callan. I'll updat...Thanks for the suggestion, Callan. I'll update with a link.<br /><br />"Confessional" in the sense that you are "confessing" or revealing your own flawed and warty thought patterns (or posing as though you are doing so), rather than (explicitly) advocating a position.Eric Schwitzgebelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11541402189204286449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-89119797444156198612014-07-08T18:40:00.652-07:002014-07-08T18:40:00.652-07:00Hope you get well soon, Eric! Though fevers and fl...Hope you get well soon, Eric! Though fevers and flu are probably the safest reminder of what it's like to be in less infrastructure rich parts of the world, without actually risking ones life.<br /><br />On the post I have trouble linking the name to the content? It seems to be admitting loose ends? I guess I just used the word 'admitting' which is kind of like confession I guess, but...?<br /><br />I suppose perhaps the practical problem is that it lends other people building on top of your lose ending, and perhaps sans any inclination towards giving loose ends themselves. Possibly some sort of culture of giving hypothetical answers that reside beside the loose end (as just one of many potential answers), rather than build ontop of it(claiming it with singular answers) might sustain such a confessional approach more?<br /><br />I'd be interested in seeing the replies to the original post :)Callan S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/15373053356095440571noreply@blogger.com