[MD] Language Games (was Theatre and Definitions)

[Matt Kundert]

Anthony,

Anthony said:
The intuition/postulation distinction of Northrop’s also has value because 
it clarifies the relationship between the two primary components of reality 
(i.e. the indeterminate Dynamic/aesthetic and the determinate static/ 
theoretical) under a single conceptual framework.

Matt:
I'm not convinced it does have value.  I still see it as an unneccessary 
reification of two standpoints, the Dynamic and the static.  When we reach 
the point in which we are liable to say that the Dynamic and the static 
interpenetrate each other, that the Dynamic and static are two standpoints 
but we shouldn't take them as literally divorced from each other, then I 
think we should be comfortable in denying a static distinction between two 
components of reality because anything we say at this level of generality, 
where everything becomes an interpentrating mush, distinctions become 
dichotomous, just like the subject/object distinction.  We can't seperate 
the aesthetic from the theoretical at this level of generality.  We can't 
seperate the two and determine what each adds to the overall picture because 
we can't _determine_: to determine would be to create the _determinate_, the 
_only_ static, a reification of a mushy continuum.

I agree with all the practical things you said about bringing the East and 
West together, but I can't see how a distinction between intuition and 
postulation plays any role in doing it.  I don't know what its for, and I 
bet anything we might want it for can be better played by other 
distinctions.

Matt

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