Ep. 124: World in the Mind
Young Heretics
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Aristotle Says, "It Never Happened Without Perception"
Fantasia isis a better word to use than perception, because it's not isthesis. It's like the word that we get, fantasy, from the kind of image in our mind. We never think without those images, even when we think we're doing it. And this is barfield's point about language,. thich is why it's more than just a kind of etymological curiosity that words like abstract come from latin, a latin word meaning to drag raIt actually tells us something about the structure of all language, the way that it always works. Because that's the way that our whole human experience works.
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