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Cover of "Kant and the Platypus"

    • This week I was trapped. Trapped by Umberto Eco. Umberto Eco wrote in the name of the Rose and other novels, and he is also, apparently, a very good essay writer. So I purchased Kant and the Platypus. Eco is also a semiotician. Semiotics is the philosophy of meaning. You would think that would be in ... Continue

      This week I was trapped. Trapped by Umberto Eco. Umberto Eco wrote in the name of the Rose and other novels, and he is also, apparently, a very good essay writer. So I purchased Kant and the Platypus. Eco is also a semiotician. Semiotics is the philosophy of meaning. You would think that would be interesting, but alas, I hate philosophy. Philosophy and philosophers never say anything clearly so I have only a vague conception of what the book is about. Not that I'm too stupid or anything, they use terms which unless you have been studying philosophy for many years, you will have no familiarity with. Like the following sentence, 'The ontics of onctology'. It reminds me of when I was in university and I took a philosophy of art course. It was led by a very pretensious guy, tall thin, with a long thin pony tail, but also balding. He would only talk to a very attractive woman in class. I failed. The only class I ever failed in my entire academic career.

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  • ― Posted on Nov 24, 2007
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