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Monday, 11 October 2010

From vagueness to distinctness

I'm glad I read Robert Sokolowski's book "Introduction to Phenomenology".  I can feel myself moving from a position of vagueness to a position of distinctness, although I am still on that journey - I haven't arrived yet.   Vagueness can be characterised by half-formed thoughts that are inchoate - somewhere between ignorance and error.  "Contradiction deals with the form of judgements, incoherence deals with their content, and both can occur in the fog of vagueness" (p107). The good thing about this is that it is normal to move from a position of vagueness on the way to distinctness. As one continues to grapple with a domain of knowledge, the contradictions and incoherences are flushed out and one's thinking and reasoning becomes distinct.

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