Maieutics “But, after all, it is much easier to discover than to see when the cover is off. It has been well said that the attitude of inspection is prone.’ Wisdom does not inspect, but behold. We must look a long time before we can see. Slow are the beginnings of philosophy." If people ever GOT IT in my terms (*you reek!…Ah! I get it): heart shaker, house breaker ooo my gawd suddenly I see what you’re saying is doing to me; wouldn’t that send me out the roof? Pump me like a balloon inflated so high when I spit it’d touch every one, I’m sure, to cure the blind: that’s why this business of provocation moves thru clods & clouds of unknowing. Raindrops keep falling on my head. Sunshine would dry me out absolutely; never the less I burn whenever I stop yearning. "He has something demoniacal in him, who can discern a law or couple two facts. We can imagine a time when ‘Water Runs Downhill’ may have been taught in the schools." I’m doing science. Sigh-ence if you like. In my case-study, the two go together: 2 hands slapping sighs & sci’s just following my gnosis, forgive me my trespasses & poses. "The true man of science will know nature better by his finer organization; he will smell, taste hear, feel better than other men. His will be a deeper and a finer experience." I saw a student outside the work-office who is studying the piliated woodpecker (called “Lawd-To-Gawd” in Yoknapatawpha according to Faulkner) at four different locations and not having the success he wants in determining patterns for his senior science seminar presentation. "We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy." I told him don’t you worry about it; just accurately record what you do and what you see and it’s all good and they got to give you the credit for it: patterns or no patterns not with standing. “Yeah,” he says: “I’m doing science, that’s for sure.” “Yeah, I agreed: that’s what science is: say what you see best you can: whatever is is good.” "It is with science as with ethics—we can not ow truth by contrivance and method; the Baconian is as false as any other, and with all the helps of machinery and the arts, the most scientific will still be the healthiest and friendliest man, and possess a more perfect Indian wisdom.” Eureka. From H.D. Thoreau’s “A Natural History of Massachusetts” & reconfigured & reformatted to fit my screed.
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