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September 15, 2004 at 5:29pm
by Psybertron Read Owen Barfield’s “Poetic Diction” and “History in English Words” a year or so ago, and blogged several items. [here][here][here]. I was doing a search on Barfield today in preparation for reading more of his work and came across two interesting sites.
This review of Barfield’s “Saving the Appearances – A Study in Idolatry” on the somewhat odd doyletics site.
Liked this 1933 Hoffenstein quote, about the reductionist dangers of logical positivism, “cutting one’s own throat with Occam’s razor” as I’ve called it, the ruthlessness of the analytic “knife” to use Pirsig‘s metaphor, or “scientific fundamentalism” as James Willis coined it.
Little by little we subtract
Faith and fallacy from fact
The illusory from the true
And starve upon the residue.
And this comprehensive Barfield site updated recently by David Lavery.
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#1. Psybertron Asks » Doyletics Again 09.16.2005
[...] ooks and other texts that Bobby Matherne has read and reviewed.[ Linked thanks to a search cross hit on my earlier post. Love that quote - from the Wordsworth school of “Murder to Dissect”.] [...]
#2. Bobby Matherne 12.01.2005
“cutting one’s own throat with Occam’s razor” — I like that. I think Sam Hoffenstein would have liked it as well.
from the somewhat odd web designer,
in freedom and light,
Bobby Matherne
#3. Ian 12.01.2005
Hi Bobby, I’ve linked to you in other posts. Nice to make contact.
I like your thinking if not all your conclusions and doyletic thesis. Interesting stuff none-the-less.
The other much quoted version of the aphorism is Wordsworth’s “We murder to dissect …”
#4. Psybertron Asks » David Lavery’s Evil Genius 02.05.2007
[...] Just updated my link to David Lavery’s Owen Barfield site a couple of days ago. [...]
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