[MD] "knowing that" versus "knowing how"

[ADRIE KINTZIGER]

Hi Marsh.
Liked your posting about Patricia Monahan,nicely written.
Is she a paintress?/writer?

We are having the first Belgium covering white christmas since 1964,
i was 5 yrs old then.
And now its snowing and freezing for 22 days without stopping, what a
traffic
jam.
I don't celebrate it , but nice to see it, the country covered in white.
Adrie

2010/12/25 MarshaV <valkyr at att.net>

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> http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-MISC/101801.htm
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>
>
> Greetings,
>
> This is a very interesting article addressing both the Daoist point-of-view
> (represented by Zhuangzi) and the Buddhist point-of-view (represented by
> Nagarjuna) on the subject of truth versus no-truth.  Here is a few
> paragraphs:
>
>    "To realize that there are no things is not to float in a porridge where
> each spoonful is indistinguishable from the next; it is to store away in the
> Gate of Heaven which remains no-thing even as all things arise from it and
> transform into each other... If we replace "things" in the previous sentence
> with "words", what would that imply about language?
>
>    According to Graham, grasping the Dao is a matter not of "knowing that"
> but of "knowing how," as shown by the many craftsmen Zhuangzi is fond of
> citing. This distinction is not as useful as one would hope, but it is
> useful to consider: what would "knowing how" with words be like? It is no
> coincidence that Zhuangzi himself provides one of the greatest examples, and
> not only for Chinese literature. Clearly there is a special art to this as
> well, which is not completely indifferent to logic and reasoning as we have
> come to understand them in the West, yet which is not to be completely
> identified with them. One of the delights of the Zhuangzi for Western
> readers is the way its polyvocal text disrupts our distinction between form
> and content, rhetoric and logic -- a bifurcation which may be not "natural"
> but an unfortunate legacy of the Western intellectual tradition."
>
>
>
> Marsha
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