[MD] SO logic/experience/ideas/language

[MarshaV]

At 08:40 AM 9/14/2007, David wrote:

>Hi Joe/all
>What role do ideas play in our experience? Derrida suggests 
>ideas/language require writing, and begin with writing. I agree with 
>this. Ideas are our way of making sense of our experience and 
>differentiating objects and other patterns out of our whole 
>experience. How do we seperate the ground from the sky? Well we draw 
>a line, a form of writing, between the two. It is an imaginary line 
>and we call it the horizon. We do the same when we differentiate the 
>nose from the face. We can then imagine the nose on its own without 
>a face, we have drawn a line round the nose and then cut round it in 
>our imagination. So imagination is the great power we use to make 
>sense of our experience/s. What is this power? A power that enables 
>not just to take experience as it is given but to enrich experience 
>and evolve? Seems to me it shows that we are dealing not only with a 
>constantly changing environment open to DQ, but that we too are a 
>dynamic complex of evolving or dis-evolving patterns open to DQ. 
>Having ideas, enriching your experience, taking on new ideas from 
>others, is the DQ of human being. Regards David M

Greetings,

This was very beautifully written.

Marsha