From: Fellhand-AT-aol.com
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 09:03:59 -0500
Subject: Re: Re2: Re2: Delirium Continuum


In a message dated 96-02-23 07:34:07 EST, you write:

>What exactly is the concrete or substantial part of thought? It is not the 
>idea in itself, but the connection between the idea-image and the thinker or

>between the thinker and the object of thought (trace-residue).*   I'd even 
>be willing to call the connection a fantasy, and the Convivial nothing but 
>collective invention. But I don't doubt that it's reality. It's the only 
>reality we can know. The idea-image has no resemblance at all with the 
>trace-residue.**  It has no concreteness other than that with which we 
>supply it.

howie,

could you clarify that?  is this a good paraphrase: the connection between
idea and object is the only reality we can know?  i don't get that very
clearly, and i'm not to fond of sentences of the form "x is the only reality
we can know."  but explain a bit!

crispin

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