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20 Apr 09
Rourke: Our error is to mistake grapholectic thought - thought maintained by writing and print - as the only kind of thought we are capable of.
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Our modern notion of “truth” denies all wisdom that cannot be plotted on a graph; that cannot be traced backwards through the recorded evidence or textual archive.
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Thus the attribution of meaning emerges from the present, synchronic situation, rather than being reliant on the consequences of past observation:
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In the oral culture “truth” must be rooted in systems that are not time-reliant.
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Our error is to mistake grapholectic thought - thought maintained by writing and print - as the only kind of thought we are capable of.
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23 Mar 09
Daniel RourkeOf course my mini-history of scientific revolution should not be taken itself as a “truth”. I draw it as a parable of progress, as one silken thread leading back through time’s circular labyrinth to my very own Ariadne. What I do maintain though, is that
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