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"Hills Like White Elephants": Epistemic, Nonepistemic And Nonseeing, Gene Washington
"Hills Like White Elephants": Epistemic, Nonepistemic And Nonseeing, Gene Washington
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This essay, a though-experiment, explores the value of reading literary texts (with the example of Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants") from the point of view of epistemic, nonepistemic and nonseeing. Epistemic seeing is defined as seeing with "belief-content" nonepistemic seeing without it. The technique is to examine each example of the word "seeing" (or one of the members of its family, "look, watch," "blink") and let it "lead" you to the object, its contest, and implications in the story as a whole..
On The Benefit Of Sleeping In: An Exercise In Epistemological Irony, Gene Washington
On The Benefit Of Sleeping In: An Exercise In Epistemological Irony, Gene Washington
Gene Washington
Irony, as an Archimedean Point, is perhaps the most efficient way to reveal human delusions and downright stupidities. Three factors go into the construction of such a Point: 1) a standpoint independent of the subject; 2) a view of the whole, not the part, of the subject and 3) an inside view of its agency—who and what brought the subject into being and how did it terminate. "ON THE BENEFIT OF SLEEPING IN: AN EXERCISE IN EPISTEMOLOGICAL IRONY" exemplifies the above.