chalk, meet cheese

There’s not knowing what it is to know: that is hermeneutics.

Then there’s not-knowing as knowing: that is information theory.

We live by the latter; but in the former.

Which can be called a state of ontological fuckedness.

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Author: JD Fleming

I am Professor of English Literature at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC. My work is in the intellectual history of the early-modern period (1500-1700), with a special interest in epistemic issues around the emergence of modern natural science (the "Scientific Revolution"). Philosophically, for me, these issues are subsumed in hermeneutics.

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