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>> No.1568181

So what are poetics again?

>> No.1568177

bump

>> No.1568189

I fucking hate students

>> No.1568232

>>1568181
try reading aristotle or jakobson some time

>> No.1568246

I don't get this, in Latin, Cogito Ergo Sum literally means "I think therefore I am"

>> No.1568251

>>1568246
Because its not a proof, but a definition.

>> No.1568263

>>1568246
I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.

>> No.1568272

the whole thing western thought kind of thing went to shit after no-one had the good sense to ask whether discerning the cartesian ego with itself was all that good or stable of an idea

>> No.1568275

>>1568232
>poetics wiki
>Poetics refers generally to the theory of literary discourse and specifically to the theory of poetry, although some speakers use the term so broadly as to denote the concept of "theory" itself.

I was looking for a definition, not a homework assignment

>> No.1568277

why would one doubt one's existence?

>> No.1568283

>>1568275
homework assignments are meant to help you understand the thing you're studying. Definitions are useless unless you understand the terms involved.

>> No.1568284

>>1568272
>the whole thing western thought kind of thing went to shit after the sheeppunk people read The Dark Tower series

>> No.1568281

>>1568272
So what is the Cartesian ego?

>> No.1568286

>>1568281
y'know, the "I" that doubts. The existentialists tore into it.

>> No.1568289

Do you actually call yourself a graduate student? Because your statements are imprecise. That may just be due to the volume of posts, though. But really...

>> No.1568295

>>1568286
I am still lacking a complete idea. Is 'I' in Cartesian ego necessarily linked to curiosity?

>> No.1568307

This is great and you've completely shaken up the establishment with them and all that, but why couldn't you have posted the two of them in one thread? Is your genius too much to contain or something?

>> No.1568314

>>1568307
I don't want to put all my eggs in one basket.

>> No.1568317

>>1568295
I just read it up and it sounds like solipsist part of you. But that perhaps simply means that its the TRUE part of your identity that has shaped itself/unshaped from outside. This I can like. But is it right?

>> No.1568323

>>1568146
+1 confirmed

>> No.1568324

>>1568314
Could you do it for the sake of the rest of us?

>> No.1568369

>>1568324
I'll take it into account for next time