Category Archives: Epistemology

On feyle and felyng

Posted on December 5, 2010 by throughother

            I have been blessed with an interlocutor who has led me to some very fertile thinking about the terms feyle and felyng (and related terms) in the Cloud.  In particular, it seems worthwhile to ask … Continue reading →

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This werk … may not be comen to by the corioustee of witte, ne by ymaginacion

Posted on June 7, 2010 by throughother

“this exercise … cannot be attained by intellectual study or through the imaginative faculty”  [heading, Ch. IV]             The term werk is given in translation variously as work and exercise.  For contemporary Americans this is a term not without valence … Continue reading →

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The Rumsfeld Principle

Posted on June 6, 2010 by throughother

            The entity that formerly performed the role of Secretary of War Donald Rumsfeld is said to have said this: There are known knowns.  These are things we know that we know.  There are known unknowns.  … Continue reading →

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Parsing the un- of Unknowing, II: A Cloud of Unkenning?

Posted on June 6, 2010 by throughother

            What is meant by knowing may be constructed as being conditional upon the nature of the object known (including whether it is, or is not, an object in the physical sense).  Such in any case undergirds … Continue reading →

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Parsing the un- of Unknowing, I: Negation and Reversal

Posted on June 6, 2010 by throughother

            There is not one un– prefix in the English language, but at least two.  Which of these is at work in the expression cloud of unknowing?              Morphologically, we can infer two possible constituent structures … Continue reading →

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