I'm not convinced the Freudian analyst can't analyze the beam of light. From my perspective any such analysis would be silly and even possibly stupid or insane, but not necessarily self-contradictory.
That's why it is ideological, because yes, it is rooted in tautologies. But it would be wrong, imho, to say that these tautologies provide no useful information, because they have consequences.
Hmm. If I say "Everything can have a poem written about it," that seems to actually encompass everything, doesn't it?
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Date: 2008-02-23 07:11 pm (UTC)That's why it is ideological, because yes, it is rooted in tautologies. But it would be wrong, imho, to say that these tautologies provide no useful information, because they have consequences.
Hmm. If I say "Everything can have a poem written about it," that seems to actually encompass everything, doesn't it?