Aug 17, 2013
What Philosophy of Culture has taught me
1) You know what it means to understand someone, and that is why you are afraid that you might misunderstand them.
2) You impose what you are familiar with onto things you discover, instead of exploring it from the bottom-up.
3) Certain things may be true only within certain paradigms but not across them; the relativist acknowledges this.
4) Belief is the central worry of philosophers of mind.
5) Thoughts and beliefs, if justified as truth, are reality.
6) Language is the lens through which you perceive reality; it is also the soul of (certain) culture(s).
7) If you want to relive your infancy, travel to a remote island where no one understands you.