From: honoria-AT-mail.utexas.edu
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 21:41:15 -0600
Subject: Re: Is elaboration passe'?


>>>>>>>>>>natural => not human, what??
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>what you believe it to be.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Short answers abstract.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Is truth a matter of belief?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>"Both belief and denial throw existence into question."
>>>>>>>>                 --Carla Harryman, "Toy Boats"
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>So truth wouuld have something to do with the >affirmation of existence?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>"If you don't know, why do you ask?" --David Tudor
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>If one does not ask how are they to know?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>. . .what reply does one make to someone who says: "I believe it merely
>>>>>>strikes you as if you knew it?" --Ludwig Wittgenstein
>>>>>
>>>>>>Yet we know that there are things that can be said that are non-sensical,
>>>>>>might not truth therefor only exist in the realm of the >sensical,
>>>>>
>>>>>"A belief may be a necessary condition of life and still be false."
>>>>>--Nietzsche
>>>>
>>>>Metamorphosis (sublimation and symbolization) consists, for each thing, in
>>>>the liberation of an aliquid which is the noematic attribute and that which
>>>>can noetically be expressed, eternal truth, and sense which hovers over
>>bodies.
>>>>--Gilles Deleuze
>>>>
>>>>To whom are you intelligible and where does it get you?
>>>>           --Laura Moriarty
>>>>
>>>>Paradigmatic shifts  make what was once thought to be false become
>>>>intelligible, yet there are those things that are patently true and those
>>>>things that are obviously false, which remain uneffected by such changes,
>>>>therefor the eternal is not a condition of truth but of belief and neither
>>>>are necessary for communication given the false is as equally comprehended
>>>>asits other.
>>>
>>>
>>>Pragmatics as Free Jazz. Example: Alternative splicing of human tyrosine
>>>hydroxylase (TH) pre-mRNA produces four mRNAs leading (nowhere); "Fron's
>>>Forehead Music-Box and today, AND TODAY...." /to four different TH isoforms
>>>and is thought to have important regulatory functions. We show that the
>>>(void)/ "Inside Are Viennese Hardstone Swans With ShiShi's golden
>>>Snuff-Box...
>>
>>A. Language is descriptive, conventionalized as well
>>B. Convention is completely anti-entropic (hang on Ann...)
>>C. Reality is entropic
>>D. Language and its purpose are in irreperable conflict...
>>
>>Language is a losing battle; besides, where does truth lie in a system that
>>is historically determined, fraught with the ideology of a ruling class-
>>
>>LANGUAGE, as are all conventionalized forms, IS A BOURGEIOSE PROPAGANDA TOOL
>>
>>        truth therefore, serves only those who it serves best; my ego requires
>>        that I be right, else............................what?
>
>If we keep this thing going long enough the top will resemble a kind of
>Hound's tooth
>jacket>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<<<
>
Language is like a simile.

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