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11663150 No.11663150 [Reply] [Original]

>forget what epistemology means
>look it up on Wikipedia
>forget it again

>> No.11663159

I miss when this place talked about books

>> No.11663182
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11663182

>don't know what epistemology means
>don't look up
>post in this thread

>> No.11663186

>>11663182
how epistemological

>> No.11663267

>>11663182
based!

>> No.11663273

>remember doing that with exactly the same word, "epistemology," 5-10 years ago
>remember being like "why do I keep forgetting this" when I encountered it
>now I study epistemology for a living

I'm pretty sure concepts just don't click until they've clicked. If your brain only half-understands something and goes 'oh ok i guess I get it', it will just fade within a day or two. You have to integrate it with yourself, and with your other knowledge and interests, as a whole, and then ideally start using it actively. Then it will become as much a part of you as your own hands.

>> No.11663282

for me it's "ontology"

>> No.11663298

I already had a tab open for looking up the definition of epistemology before I read this thread.

Is this a synchronicity?

>> No.11663300

>>11663282
Read some mark fischer and now I can't not remember it.

>> No.11663313

>>11663298
What does synchronicity mean again?
I forget.

>> No.11663319

>>11663298
No synchronicity is not just one coincidence

>> No.11663336

>>11663182

one of my favorite parts of this particular pepe is the fucking walmart style fuzzy loafers that he has on him that are probably cheap as fuck and two sizes too big

>> No.11663340

>>11663150
So what does it mean,hmm?

>> No.11663345

>>11663282
on (ὤν) or onta (ὄντα) is just the present active participle of the word for "to be," "to exist" (εἰμί)

greek can use participles and adjectives as substantive nouns, so instead of saying "The running THING," you can just say "The running," and it's understood that the missing noun is an implied "something" or "thing" that is running, or a running-something.

so using on/onta is just the way of taking the verb for "is", "are," "be," "exist," that is εἰμί, making it an active participle form to imply that something is presently "being," or simply "is," in a general sense. and so you get a usefully general word that refers only to a being-something. now to how it is being, or other aspects of it, but simply that it "is," or even that it is "is-ing."

so if we want to talk about a science or a systematic exposition (logos) of "what is," and how it is that anything is, we can say "ont-ology." if we were greeks sitting around in a grove and you said to me, "What 'is' anything?" and i replied "Maybe everything 'is' made of matter, like rocks?," and you replied "But what about when I say, that rock 'is' big? Isn't bigness relative, and not a real property existing in the object? What about when I say a non-physical sentence or an abstract concept 'is' stupid; or when I refer to things that no longer exist, or never existed materially? Do those 'be' as well?," we could usefully reply: we need a science of is-ology, or a "science of the being of beings," which for the greeks would just be an ont-ology

not that you don't already know this but that's how i think o fit

>> No.11663384

>>11663345
Thanks professor. I totally read all that. Next can you put my balls in your mouth and unfuck my life?

—Charlie

>> No.11663392

I still don't know what Hermeneutic and Ontological mean because these words are only used by pseuds