[AGL] as the world turns

[Michael Eisenstadt]

yesterday from downtown austin i drove to my clinic to pick up
a new perscription. i then drove north on the access
road a mite bit to the nearest Walmart pharmacy and
waited an hour for the perscription to be filled. i brought
a translation and commentary on Plato's theatetus (one
of his dialogues) with me because i knew i would have
to wait. at the end of the book the author named 
McDowell quotes Wittgenstein as follows - 

"If God had looked into our minds, he would not have been able
to see there whom we were speaking of."

The epistemology of recognizing an acquaintance
is a kind of mystery is what W is refering to. if knowedge
is a true belief with a logos explaining the belief (=final
thesis about knowledge in this dialogue), how does
that fit with the recognition of an acquaintance?
(plato understands the r of an a as an example of 
knowledge  the subject of the Theaetetus is what 
is knowledge?)

there is something going on here Mr Jones and if
i had a long time i might have a final learned article 
in me. today i am the birthday boy, my roommate
baked me an orange almond cake a la grecque
and went off to teach her class. 

that i read McDowell's quote of Wittgenstein
waiting on a grotty chair in front of the pharmacy in a
Walmart for a perscription to be filled is like seeing the 
benzene chain in a dream, comparing large things to small.

and Frances Morey drives to San Antonio today.

mike e.