/lit/ - Literature

To answer the question posed: You can take the tentative position, a supposition, that every person has an unconscious episteme, and that in discourse one either attests to one's episteme or remain irrevocably subject to its subconscious dimension, and move from there. Because I can find little counter-evidence to this position, it becomes the episteme I attest to, that at the same time applies to me. An episteme is here no more than an organizing principle, the most general condition of the set of sensible abstractions that make up your body of knowledge. Correct are you in pointing out that to invoke this nature in discourse serves to illustrate no purely logical function. Always is it a question of justification. In short, of ethics. Because to know one's episteme and how it conditions your body of knowlede is to be capable of articulating function, and thereby to be capable of being 'right', or functionally correct. This inherently ethical dimension of philosophy is how you can have bodies of knowledge which share features but not episteme. Though, to say that epistemological theories because of their determining nature aren't themselves subject to criteria of logical truth is to miss the crucial point with this ethical dimension. Because bodies of knowledge share features, you get something reminiscent of the Hegelian Aufhebung, wherein seemingly disparate systems organized by differing singularities, by way of analogy or metaphor, are shown to be reflections or manifestations of the same unitary structure. The genesis of newer structure generally puts the derivative philosophies into perspective, seen precisely from the perspective which the new structure itself is. Because the incoherency of the bodies of knowledge gives rise to epistemic novelty, the dialectical position taken here can, if it is to be rationally coherent, only be summarized or articulated in ethical, empirical terms: "While one has no certain knowledge, one at once will and must believe one does,"

For learning a second language that you would like to write in, what is aesthetically/objectively better over English for writing in verse (ballads, epics, etc)? Huge linguistic customisation is a bonus.

My ideas are any of the romance languages, or perhaps Latin. Anyone who says ancient Greek can BTFO, because I aesthetically don't like it.

Not writing to publish, so translation plebs don't scare me.