tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6246444662492868163.post1925967040500519911..comments2023-07-05T10:01:57.835-05:00Comments on Ciceronianus; causidicus: Some Thoughts Regarding Thought Experimentsciceronianushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10134836668562326081noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6246444662492868163.post-68647548409941756332011-08-02T14:17:00.470-05:002011-08-02T14:17:00.470-05:00It's been a long time since I read Orteaga y G...It's been a long time since I read Orteaga y Gasset. I see I must revist him. <br /><br />I've never been sure what is meant by "a prior reasoning." The a priori, I think, is more a matter of propensities than anything else, a function of the fact that being humans, we tend to experience and process things as humans do.ciceronianushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10134836668562326081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6246444662492868163.post-32511877532076133262011-08-02T10:42:41.607-05:002011-08-02T10:42:41.607-05:00"They did whatever they felt like doing with ..."They did whatever they felt like doing with concepts." wrote Ortega y Gasset on the German Idealists, "As if by magic they changed anything into any other thing."<br /><br />This is sound criticism but we must remember that the Hellenic triumphs of theoretical culture would not have been possible without a priori reasoning. And it is this hierarchical ordering of human existence which, as must be obvious, we are in so dire need of today.<br /><br />For if we were more set on disciplining our minds and hearts, then perhaps this modern denigration of imagination too would subside and we could return to a more classical completeness as Giambattista Vico tells us,<br /><br />"To the head [the Romans] assigned all cognitive functions, and as these all involved imagination, they located memory ('memoria' being the Latin term for 'phantasia', or imagination) in the head."Mike Hnoreply@blogger.com