#(Distinctions)

[philosophybits]

Reality is infinitely diverse, compared with even the subtlest conclusions of abstract thought, and does not allow of clear-cut and sweeping distinctions. Reality resists classification.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The House of the Dead

[thirdity]

Male/female, white/black, good/evil, civilized/primitive, culture/nature, self/other, literature/paraliterature, mind/body, conscious/unconscious, subject/object, presence/absence, voice/writing, artist/critic, sanity/madness — these seeming conceptually egalitarian oppositions that cover vast socially exploited hierarchies are, themselves, a theme; perhaps, till fairly recently, they were the great theme of the West.

Samuel R. Delany, "Neither the First Word nor the Last on Deconstruction..."

[anaxerneas]

Robert Sokolowski, "The Method of Philosophy: Making Distinctions"

[philosophybitmaps]

[in-tenebris-et-in-solitudine]

There's a big difference between people who can love you right and others who don't.

[flufflecat]

thinking about ford "human blood tastes better" pines

ford "i have been desiring blood more than usual" pines

stanford "was bitten by a fruit bat but still wrote the sentence 'i have been desiring blood more than usual'" pines

[rennessillyarchive]

everytime dungeon meshi focuses on characters outside of the touden party you can really feel the looming horror of the dungeon,, only the touden party is having a silly fun time by virtue of eating the horrors

[bacchuschucklefuck]

couldnt draw my thang for mid-autumn so treated myself to a calne redesign instead

[urban-surfin]

“The narcissism of small differences …”

Pamela Paul

[philosophybits]

The sage embraces things. Ordinary men discriminate among them and parade their discriminations before others. So I say, those who discriminate fail to see.

Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Zhuangzi, Watson tr. (Ch 2)

[thirdity]

Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.

Henry Miller, Henry Miller on Writing

[anaxerneas]

Imaginative variation and eidetic intuition are related to making distinctions. They make up a process that is far more complex and mysterious than Husserl's rather summary descriptions of it would suggest. It is a process, furthermore, that is carried on by all writers when they perform what we call thought experiments in order to bring out what one would call conceptual necessities if one were more or less nominalistic in taste, or essential necessities if one were a realist. What eidetic intuitions do is to bring out distinctions in all their necessity, and to bring out, consequently, the identities that are the other side of distinctions.

Robert Sokolowski, "Making Distinctions"

[philosophybitmaps]

[poisned]

The duality of man

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