An Un-canny Ontology

This blog is an attempt to work through my ideas of the un-canny and how they fit into ontology.

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Ontological Question?

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What is a question? Not why do we question, but ultimately what is it that a question is ? Is it an object? Does it have properties? Lingui...
Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Übersetzung

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In a couple of recent posts Levi has developed his notion that objects relate to each other via translation. This means for onticology tha...
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Thursday, November 12, 2009

Allusion and Influence: How to Say and Do Something Without Having to Say or Do It

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In Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics Kant argues that: On the contrary, I say that as objects of our senses existing outside us ar...
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Thursday, October 8, 2009

The Ontic Principle in 1909!?!

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David, a friend of mine, found this in James Bissett Pratt's book What is Pragmatism? (1909). Could this be an early form of the Ontic...
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Tuesday, October 6, 2009

3 Types of Relationships Between Selfish Objects - A Brief Outline

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In my last post I argued that Levi’s onticological objects are selfish in nature – that is, that if defined by the Ontic Principle, objects ...
Friday, October 2, 2009

TV Shows and Tube Socks: Same Difference

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Deleuze distinguishes between difference in his terms and empirical difference. Empirical difference distinguishes between two objects – ...
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Monday, September 21, 2009

Zombies vs. Humans: Materialism or Immaterialism

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In a response to a nagging question I had about how object-oriented thought handles the particle physics notion of the Standard Model – t...
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Nathan Gale
This is the blog of Nathan A. Gale, a PhD student in Rhetoric and Literary Theory. As you can tell I love anything that deals with the uncanny.
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