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Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 15:53:10 -0500
From: "Allen Miller" <millerpa-AT-gwm.sc.edu>
Subject: Re: Foucault's Method


There would be no sensory experience recognized as such if there were no thought, hence you can argue thought is prior to experience.  This is an essentially Kantian  position.  The categories of experience are prior to the content of experience.



>>> JBCM2-AT-aol.com 02/01/01 13:35 PM >>>
In a message dated 01/31/2001 11:40:59 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
kirk728-AT-hotmail.com writes:

<< 
 The answer is that thought is primary. Our senses are merely a faculty
 for the inspiration of thoughts.  It is possible that there are other
 unknown faculties greared to the same purpose.
  >>

what does this actually mean?  this is a serious question.  do you mean that 
thought is prior to sensory experience, or do you mean that thought 
supersedes sensory experience?  do you think that thought is itself sensory 
experience, or something different?  would you agree with Roethke, that "We 
think by feeling.  What else is there to know? -- or would you say "we feel 
by thinking"?

joe brennan....


   

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