more WvB folderol

[Hartwin Alfred Gebhardt]

Chris Stolz writes:

> I think this is Pynchon's interest in WvB:  immersion in calculus
> and physics makes it very, very clear that basic metaphysical
> questions are not only unanswerable in scientific vocabulary but
> also that these questions are as important as scientific thinking
> itself.

And certainly _more_ important in many ways. A London banana 
breakfast in the middle of a V2 shower exists for us on a level far 
more immediate than the 'scientific'. No simplistic human vs scientific 
opposition (animate vs inanimate) implied, and no anti-scientism either. 
Just the realisation, IMO, that our perspective remains firmly 
'human'. The relationship of the human with the inanimate, interwoven 
as they necessarily are due to the nature of our language-identity, is 
quite another question.

hg
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