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Thursday, 17 November 2022

Phenomenal experience and particularity as point of view seem to be almost synonymous. Even non-phenomenal uses of the term experience indicate the particularity of point of view even if only in an indefinite way subject to contestation, "our experience as a nation" etc. Not only a point of view, but knowingly a point of view as against some whole which might even be an unimaginable totalised point of view, as in God's omniscience, projected as if it were a kind of experience, or better, a limit case of experience. Point of view is a frame in which an external reality is realised based on difference, distinctions, and most especially tensions and harmonies, forces and resistances. The price of experience as a possibility of the whole is the proliferation of points of view, their frictions and eve lotions. Points of view are objects of points of view; this kind of reflexivity being inescapable.

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