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A blog, of sorts, intended as a place to experiment, struggle, question, and play with whatever research I am currently working on. The themes will thus change over time as my projects change, and the entries may be quotations that strike my fancy, attempts to puzzle through hairy problems, notes on sources, experiments, musings, dead ends, odd angles of looking at things. It is a voice to my frustrations, discoveries, curiosities, and confusions. It is thinking out loud. ...More subscribe to this blog

Plato and the Poets: WWE Smackdown

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8 Jan 2010

Revisited the argument of Plato and the poets yet again today. Will this conversation really not die even after 3000 years of us having it? I'm tired of it after only 3 months. My own take, which I'm sure will convince absolutely no one since everyone falls firmly on the side they are to be on, never to leave it again:

Literature and non-empirical pursuits are not unscientific any more than any other sort of observation is. Scientific method, folks. Hypothesize, observe, record, adjust hypothesis. Literature as observation. Don't knock it. It gave us gravity.