Wednesday, October 25, 2006
If I didn't interpret the website wrongly, feministic epistemology advocates women's intuition as an acceptable and reliable method of constructing knowledge.
Having witnessed scary examples of women's inituition, where my peers blurted out the truth without proof and thinking, I think I'm going to become a feministic epistemologist.
At times like this, I stopped wishing to become a boy. I wished instead to find a hole in the ground and stick my head in.
Wonder if a woman's instincts comes not with her physical gender, but the gender of her personality. For instance, a tomboy might not have such instincts, but a... feminine man might.
That would explain a lot.
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Read somewhere that if Newton or Einstein or any reknowned scientist did not discover what they discovered, another scientist will eventually discover it. However, without Shakespeare, there will be no Othello or Romeo and Juliet or whatever, because no one else can write the exact same stories.
My brother disagrees. He thinks that art is just a large but still finite number of possible combinations (of colours, shapes, etc) , and that, given a long enough period of time, someone will reach a certain combination.
I don't know what to think. It makes sense logically, but my heart disagrees with it.
It reminds me of the Archilles vs turtle paradox. It's logical, but you just can't accept it.
Monday, October 23, 2006
The teachers, by way of consolation, have been telling us how results don't matter, since people with poor grades get to be CEOs anyway. "Your grades don't define who you are, but your future successes."
To me, they're basically saying that what matters about us are not our grades, but our future career and money. Which is just as bad.