The word creepy is used to describe many things. Do you think that there is a unifying, there's a commonality to the ways that when we like in modern parlors? Okay. Here's my shot at talking about the commonality. I think creepiness is the sense that something is either dangerous, like threatening or off-putting in some way or just off - but without knowing exactly what the source of that is. Once this, you have a definite sense of the source of the thing, then it's not creepy anymore. It's something else.
David and Tamler talk about William James’ chapter on mysticism from his book "Varieties of Religious Experience." What defines a mystical experience? Why do they defy expression and yet feel like a state of knowledge, a glimpse into the window of some undiscovered aspect of reality? Is Tamler right that David has a little mystic inside of him just waiting to burst forth from his breast?
Plus – another edition of VBW does conceptual analysis and we’re sticking with ‘c’ words – this time the definitive theory of ‘creepy.’
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