[AGL] as the world turns

[Margaret Martone]

And...Happy Belated Birthday, Michael; Texas Independence Day!  I spent the last week and 1/2 of yesterday with Anne Huddleston in Granbury for her birthday (Feb. 28).  Stay well.

Margaret


> From: mike.eisenstadt at gmail.com

> To: austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net

> Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 10:15:35 -0600

> Subject: [AGL] as the world turns

> 

> 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.

 		 	   		  
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