Connections to other disciplinesGeneral semantics has important links with analytic philosophy and the philosophy of science; it could be characterized without too much distortion as applied analytic philosophy. The influence of Ludwig Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle, and of early operationalists and pragmatists such as Charles Sanders Peirce, is particularly clear in the foundational ideas … Continue reading RAW: GENERAL SEMANTICS AT WIKIPEDIA
Category: Alan Watts
wu-wei – knowing when to stop.
I must confess that Alan watts gets to the marrow of life, at least this morning he got into my marrow when i read the following:"Tao was always nameless...Inasmuch as names are given, one should also know where to stop.Knowing where to stop one can become imperishable.This "knowing where to stop" is more generally called … Continue reading wu-wei – knowing when to stop.
chrudism
Introduction.If the battle lines are drawn by bully boys from the Church of ignorance and plain simple religious zealots; drunk on their own prejudice and delusion that seeing is believing and believing is seeing, then, i hope to illuminate certain details here, and combine some 21st century scientific facts with timeless mythological metaphors and create … Continue reading chrudism
