[MD] continental and analytic philosophy

[david buchanan]

gav said:
...i thought language was experience language extends experience  'it is the capacity for imagination to expect, anticipate or extend experience that produces formations [language/concepts] that *seem* to govern human life but are actually outgrowths or fictions produced from life.'  claire colebrook on deleuze


dmb says:

Roughly, that's how I see it too. Against slogans like "all awareness is a linguistic affair", Pirsig and James would say, "That's not true and as a matter of fact our philosophies and our modes of rationality suffer greatly by ignoring non-linguistic awareness."  Like Colebrook, they see words and concepts as elements that are derived from experience and function within experience. Like I said, the "question about language and experience, at least roughly, is about whether it's possible to reconcile Rorty and James". Whereas Rorty wants to drop epistemology and truth theories altogether and instead puts the emphasis on language (intersubjective agreement, better vocabularies), James asserts radical empiricism and a theory of truth based on what can be justified in actual experience. 
 		 	   		  
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