[FRIAM] OK. That's funny.

[Frank Wimberly]

Why tragedy?

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Frank C. Wimberly
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On Wed, Aug 5, 2020, 12:05 PM jon zingale <jonzingale at gmail.com> wrote:

> FWIW, I occasionally entertain the idea of a *Universal Grammar* for
> belief[⍦].
> The idea being that there may be some genetic component of the belief
> faculty,
> and that by analogy to universal grammar, one acquires competence in one's
> own
> beliefs through performance[⌂][◇]. At any moment, a person makes decisions
> and
> suffers the reality that they did or did not believe what they thought they
> might. Here, I am defining belief more narrowly than most. For me, beliefs
> are
> necessarily discovered, and not the kind of thing one 'discovers' by
> considering
> hypotheticals. Alternatively, it feels wonderful to reject *-archies in
> favor
> of rhizomatic thought[⍼], à la, "A Thousand Plateaus". Taken together, an
> invigorating experience akin to visiting a sauna with a cold plunge.
>
> [⍦] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_grammar
>
> [◇] The connection I am drawing to Glen's linked paper is to:
> 1. similarities between alethic and doxastic modalities.
> 2. highlighted tensions between constructivist and analytical modalities.
>
> [⌂] I think of a theory of this kind as weakly rejecting the notion of
> Peircean
> truth. Different individuals, with different biologically determined
> universal
> belief structures, would ultimately believe different things in the long
> run.
> What would be considered truth, in the long run, could only then be a
> tragedy
> of intersectional beliefs.
>
> [⍼] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhizome_(philosophy)
>
>
>
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