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[Mark A. Douglas]

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> rj wrote:
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> > Epistemology ("How can I interpret this world...?")
> > Ontology ("Which world is this?")
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> Now I remember. I read this book. I like this book. The quote above bothered
me.
> Can you provide the entire quote.
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> Terrance
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"The Cognitive Questions (asked by most artists of the 20th century, Platonic or
Aristotelian, till around 1958):
    'How can I interpret this world of which I am a part? And what am I in it?'

The Postcognitive Questions (asked by most artists since then):
    'Which world is this? What is to be done in it? Which of my selves is to do
it?'"
    (Dick Higgins, _A Dialectic of Centuries_, 1978)
[pg.101]

...is the quote in entirety from McHale's _Postmodernist Fiction_.
McHale uses the quotes as a starting for defining the difference in
epistemological writings and ontological writings in chapter 6 of his sequel,
_Constructing Postmodernism_.

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