[FRIAM] Myth of the Given

[Steve Smith]

Jon -

I definitely appreciated the balance of the lecturer's animated style
and a seemingly accurate/complete description.

I have a hard time dismissing more than the Snarky part of PoMo
theory/culture, even though I'm not an adherent in any obvous way.   

I appreciate your observations here:  I reacted to Derrida from the
start (my first encounter 20 years after he wrote/spoke) but this guy
helped relieve that with his treatment.

- Steve

> I rather liked his characterization of Derrida's work as *all is text*, and
> that the best we can do from the privileged perspective of logos is to
> compare descriptions.
>
> [1] "As analytic philosophers might prefer to put it, thought and language
> are capable of determining things only up to isomorphism".
>
> [2] "If that's right, there's no principled difference between describing
> reality and describing a system of signs, a text, language itself".
>
> Through the lens of Lawvere's fixed point theorem, I am compelled to think
> of Derrida's idea as Godel incompleteness for logos itself:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NddnaeZ03JE
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