The root of "rationally" means "to count."
Counting--rational thinking--means separating the parts from the whole. Rational thinking is essentially dissection. You cannot think rationally about a subject and keep your subject alive.
One must also think holistically.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Thinking rationally is only half thinking.
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One must also think holistically.
Sounds impressive, but how do you know when someone thinks holistically? Or thinks at all. Maybe you're surrounded by zombies.
As even St Wittgenstein admitted--we don't know things (except our self, perhaps) until they are in language. Then and only then can those thoughts-in-words be understood, analyzed, contemplated, mocked, tossed on a bonfire, what have you.
We know things (mechanically) in language
but we know things (holistically) in our bodies.
More to come but I've got a pile of reading to do.
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