Perhaps a rubric for measuring profundity that might avoid claims to radical
subjectivity is Nelson Goodman's notion of "syntactic density." While it
is, I suspect, a pilfered version of Heidegger's ideas, and accordingly
lacks the advantages those ideas derive from being rooted in a
phenomenological ground, it boasts the advantage of being a simple yet
robust evocation of an object rich in interpretive possibilities.
Travis
Dr. Travis Anderson
Associate Professor of Philosophy
4081 JFSB, Brigham Young University
Provo, Utah 84602 (801) 422-5824
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