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Steph and I have Weltschmerz at the moment.

weltschmerz (VELT-shmerts) noun

World weariness; pessimism, apathy, or sadness felt at the difference between physical reality and the ideal state.

[From German Weltschmerz, from Welt (world) + Schmerz (pain).]
From wordsmith.org</blockquote

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[burningskyfire.livejournal.com]

me too.

have you heard of Hume's guillotine?

[watersusurrus.livejournal.com]

I haven't! Tell me about it, o philosophical one!

(p.s. Once I finish up at this job I was thinking of organising a lunch day with you, what do you think?)

(p.p.s. Make me an icon!!)

[burningskyfire.livejournal.com]

(the only reason I know about this is 'cause our nifty tutor happened to mention it to us - he's eccentric, that one)
Hume's guillotine is um, about the supposed missing premise in between what is, and what ought to be. the difference between simply describing a situation and prescribing what it should be like. to me, it seems to follow, but Hume asks why.
this wiki article explains it much more eloquently than I.
but, it interests me that there's a word to describe that feeling of weariness at the difference/conflict between the two... maybe emotion, rather than logic, comes closer to bridging the gap.
depending on the morphology of the word and when it was coined, maybe it was created in response to Hume's guillotine.
*smiles* we looked at a related idea in lang - does language stem from actuality or create it. does limiting the language limit thought; the existence of abstract concepts.
and, the notion that the egyptians had that you told me about of language being sacred; magic. of words having power.

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

P.S., that link didn't work, but is this subarticle under Hume what you're talking about?

[burningskyfire.livejournal.com]

yeah, wow, I wonder what I did to that link. probably copied it incorrectly or something silly.
but yay, yep, that's the article.

[burningskyfire.livejournal.com]

*slips out of philosophical sphere*
re. ps: a lunch day would be awesome! *smiles* sharing ideas and company and food, I would like that very much. It will have to be on a weekend, unless I have a pupil free day, or in the holidays. or, on a thursday afternoon when I finish school early. but yes, and I promise soon I will get my act together and concepts and research and mythology and time and then, organise body painting, because I think the possibilities are exciting.
I'm glad that we're approaching samhain now, because it feels like the wheel's finally sinking into void and rest and the womb that nurtures creation.. or something like that. a feeling I can't quite express yet.

*grins* sorry that I'm leaving all these ramblings in your journal, miss d.

re. pps: okay *smiles* I will attempt to. perhaps even now whilst I listen to I-lectures.

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Nope, sorry. Should've studied philosophy.

[buhfly.livejournal.com]

*cuddles Biscuit and Jam* That is like the best word in the world right now.

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

*nods* I quite agree.

[nys.livejournal.com]

i love that... i think it's my permanent mood