As to Russian philosophy, I really have no time for it. What I meant was simply the grammatical affinity - to a certain extent.
In Whitehead's quotation the key word is "doctrine," and in this sense he is quite correct. If ever I feel a need for a doctrine, I will rich for the classics. For the time being I subsist on Putnam.
On to Cantor. The Baconians and other flat-earthers are a common pest, but a great man is allowed a couple of stupid opinions on subjects he is ignorant of. His statement about Kant is true, I worked out something similar for myself quite independently. But this is not the whole truth about Kant. Or else I should be able to condemn Cantor himself for his Baconianism. Kant should have left the frigging ding-an-sich out of his writings - this would have spared further generations much grief.
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Re: so we can vie with heidegger’s german
Date: 2005-10-03 04:48 pm (UTC)In Whitehead's quotation the key word is "doctrine," and in this sense he is quite correct. If ever I feel a need for a doctrine, I will rich for the classics. For the time being I subsist on Putnam.
On to Cantor. The Baconians and other flat-earthers are a common pest, but a great man is allowed a couple of stupid opinions on subjects he is ignorant of. His statement about Kant is true, I worked out something similar for myself quite independently. But this is not the whole truth about Kant. Or else I should be able to condemn Cantor himself for his Baconianism. Kant should have left the frigging ding-an-sich out of his writings - this would have spared further generations much grief.