well, learning to me is not the same as theory. learning/<stance> is what *
makes* theory or instigates it. it begins from norms, values & well,
resentments.
KS
2009/5/12 Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> That's one way of looking at it. Which comes up to Judy's query. I'd say
> that, even if one isnt aware of it, any learning of a craft, like writing
> (poetry, say?) involves, at leas somewhat, something like what we still call
> 'theory.' And without some such learning = practice, how does one actually
> achieve anything in that craft (art).
>
> Etc.
>
> Doug
> On 12-May-09, at 8:10 AM, Jon Corelis wrote:
>
> Isn't it as simple as theory = explanation?
>>
>
> Douglas Barbour
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> and this is 'life' and we owe at least this much
> contemplation to our western fact: to Rise,
> Decline, Fall, to futility and larks,
> to the bright crustaceans of the oversky.
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