/lit/ - Literature

>>22814068
I've been reading a lot of these Rand threads lately and while I think she was mistaken and uninteresting as an intellectual, as a person I find her quite remarkable. She definitely stands out from the crowd. I like her. I would have liked to share her company, perhaps not always, but certainly sometimes.

Hijacking this thread.
I've been studying bits and pieces of Aristotle lately after being very hostile to his ideas for a long time. Turns out I was right, guy is a weirdo. He's pretty decent on the study of material objects, however. Even on that point I have some complaints, but I don't find myself objecting to everything he's saying there, and in fact I find that there are useful explanations on how we learn through empiricism. He's really bad on everything else, though.

>>22072031
>Its a medium for children and teenagers, its not mature.
Why? Explain with reference to intrinsic traits.
>How old are you?
25.

>>21942514
As I stated, I am not entirely certain what your question is.
Are you equating perception with the sense faculties? I would consider the sense faculties to be one set of tools subordinate to perception. But I cannot imagine the sense faculties as being perception itself.
I guess if we were to adjust your terminology, "perceived stuff" changes. And that is indisputably true. But perception does not, for the reasons I described earlier. I also find it difficult to understand what you are getting at when you say that you "don't want to commit to any metaphysical-mental structure" with reference to mental images etc, because the existence of mental images is similarly indisputable. Your willingness to commit or lack thereof is irrelevant to the reality of the phenomenon, which has to be explained one way or the other. Perhaps your goal is to interpret Plato from some kind of materialist perspective? But that is a non-starter, in which case we are both wasting our time.