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Friday, 24 May 2024

Without any clear idea of what experience actually is there is a folk ontology of inner life which while being based in body and energy awareness attempts to make sense of one thing turning into another thing, or of one thing standing in for or representing another thing. And in a quite different way there is a (more complex, but somewhat better delineated) folk ontology of outer, 'objective' experience based on causal instances and linguistic and aesthetic effects. And just as inner and outer are not clearly separated, the very terms of the delineation being ultimately contingent, the two ontologies mutually contaminate each other with various fallacies. ()The 'pathetic fallacy and its inverse, ie psychology.)

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