willow: "thinking about this thread again. i underestimated the extent to which new experiences could cause my vocabulary to atrophy"

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thinking about this thread again. i underestimated the extent to which new experiences could cause my vocabulary to atrophy

willowOct 1, 2023

At the same time, it’s a bit simplistic to act like it’s exclusively a positive thing to acquire new way ti express myself. There are different degrees of mediation, and different latent tendencies or habits different types lend themselves to.

June 29, 2025 at 12:02 PM

willowJun 29, 2025

thought modeled upon unenlightening experiences

willowJan 30, 2024

John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy, pg. 87
To Plato, experience meant enslavement to the past, to custom. Experience was almost equivalent to established customs formed not by reason or under intelligent control but by repetition and blind rule of thumb. Only reason can lift us above subjection to the accidents of the past. When we come to Bacon and his successors, we discover a curious reversal. Reason and its bodyguard of general notions is now the conservative, mind-enslaving factor. Experience is the liberating power. Experience means the new, that which calls us away from adherence to the past, that which reveals novel facts and truths. Faith in experience produces not devotion to custom but endeavor for progress. This difference in temper is the more significant because it was so unconsciously taken for granted. Some concrete and vital change must have occurred in actual experience as that is lived. For, after all, the thought of experience follows after and is modeled upon

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