xmca@weber.ucsd.edu writes:
>
pater familias Eric responds to Phil of Australia -
>
>
>> Can such answers be practically "produced" other than in the
>imagination?
>>
>
>No. Productivity as an activity is the synthesis of subjective
>individuals
>acting upon an objective environment. Unfortunately Phil your
>suggestions
>are all subjective.
it seems to me that many an environment can only be subjective -
particularly the environments that Phil described, which are cultural
constructions.
seems to me that the use of the word "unfortunately" is also a subjective
stance .....
for me, Phil's list seemed particularly laudable precisely because of its
grounding in subjectivity.
of course, this is a subjective stance.
>
>
>Cheers from waterlogged MN,
indeed, while we here in colorado were veiled in the haze of dust from
sunny Mongolia.
phillip
* * * * * * * *
* *
The English noun "identity" comes, ultimately, from the
Latin adverb "identidem", which means "repeatedly."
The Latin has exactly the same rhythm as the English,
buh-BUM-buh-BUM - a simple iamb, repeated; and
"identidem" is, in fact, nothing more than a
reduplication of the word "idem", "the same":
"idem(et)idem". "Same(and) same". The same,
repeated. It is a word that does exactly what
it means.
from "The Elusive Embrace" by Daniel
Mendelsohn.
phillip white
third grade teacher
doctoral student http://ceo.cudenver.edu/~hacms_lab/index.htm
scrambling a dissertation
denver, colorado
phillip_white@ceo.cudenver.edu
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