Thursday, January 31, 2008
argument
there is a difference between a deductive argument and an inductive argument. deductive arguments appeal to a subject to render an imaginary other. inductive arguments appeal to a real other to render a subject. of course, all things need imagination since the scope of our sensibility isn't infinite. what is the accountability for inductive arguments? two ideas:
1. imagination (v. the imaginary) binds together subjects in accord to real others.
2. the real other becomes abstract at a point because of the limit to our sensibilities, and requires imagination to prevent a deductive understanding of the real.
what results is inductive arguments in imaginary sandwich bread. like magnetic fields steering ions into the aurora borealis.
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i don't know if this is related, but i was looking over the paranoid-critical method in delirious ny last night. it seems like this type of reasoning is more in line with inductive reasoning (having to do with the imagination) rather than deductive reason (having to do with proofs).
"real other"? what do you mean
e.g. the holocaust, climate, documentation, memory, communal assertion, tides, or anything that offers collective parameters for engagement with the world at large. those things that constitute our comportment, the semantic components of our disposition to conceive and act.
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