10.23.2005

A is for Affective

Affective epistemology is based on the idea that there is a way of knowing which transcends, specific perceptual frames. The idea is predicated on two primary elements:

1) Feelings and emotions (affective components) are relative to localized perceptual frames. They are not specific to perceptual frames. Individual affective components are specific-to-specific thought forms.

2) These components maybe categorized into two basic sub-classifications lateral and trans-lateral.

Affective components indicate the qualitative and quantitative efficacy or weighted meaning of a given perception, thought form, or way of being in the consciousness of human beings and sentient life.

There is a faith that, through affect and reason, an understanding of reality can be attained.

10 comments:

DAVE DACK said...

There definitely has to be some affect involved in gaining a legitimate understanding of reality, for two reasons. First, reducing everything to simply facts is stupid, and impossible. Second, there is no other choice... we are subjectivity machines, it's what we do.

Deanna said...

uh, I'm pretty sure I'm not even close to smart enough to know what you're talking about guys.

Anonymous said...

i feel like i miss the orange

Unknown said...

Even though I left a little in there for ya?!

DIRAN LYONS said...

That orange holds an important spot. We need it there. But we need it more intense. [Intense this...]

Micah said...

Is that burnt orange, James? Famed colour of a certain Texan Education Institution? My enemy? My enmity?

Matt Naylor said...

I don't much care about the orange thing and I'm too tired or to uneducated to understand the post. What I am marveling at is the fact that I have a new found addiction to the refresh button. If I don't leave the site now I'll keep hitting it untill I've read every quote.

Anonymous said...

but i need the orange, in multitude

The JadedCM said...

Love the look of the new Jetta Res 2.0. I have no idea what your post is about...but its all good. We need to play poker again.

Micah said...

yeah, but not super late again