Re: Passion and rationality

Judy Diamondstone (diamonju who-is-at rci.rutgers.edu)
Thu, 4 Apr 1996 13:16:26 -0500

As I read my own preceding message I realized that I had used in a
somewhat confusing way a term that we have debated here. At the
beginning of this year, Gary Shank distinguished between usages of
"true": 1. the truth content of a claim, and 2. the status of
truth as undeniably so. And Jay distinguished the phenomenologically
so, the real-by-experience, from the truth of propositions outside an
experiential context. If it wasn't clear from my preceding message,
when I wrote of "someone's truth" as "lived history" that warrants our
hearing, I was referring to the phenomenologically so, which I treat as
undeniably so in performance, deniable only on reflection, in retrospect,
hopefully after some mutual struggle.

Our notions of rationality, it seems to me, need phenomenological
deepening, a way of incorporating embodied knowledge and
and the immediate, untested/untestable moment.

I hope I am not sounding too cryptic.

- Judy

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Judy Diamondstone
diamonju who-is-at rci.rutgers.edu
Rutgers University

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