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Notre Dame William James
1,256 wordsWhen William James and Charles Pierce coined the term "pragmatism" 150 years ago, they meant something more than mere "practicality. " James and Pierce were making a point about the nature of "truth. " Truth, they argued, isn't some transcendent thing that exists beyond human experience. Truth is found right here on earth. If belief in an idea leads to positive results, then the idea is true; if belief in an idea leads to negative results, then it is false. Charles Pierce (1839 - 1914 was perhap...
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Crying Of Lot 49 Fictional World
1,347 wordsThere are two levels of apprehension to The Crying of Lot 49: that of the characters in the book, whose perception is limited to the text, and that of the reader, who has the ability to look at the world from outside of it. A recurring theme in the novel is the phenomenon of chaos, also called entropy. Both the reader and Oedipa have the same problems of facing the chaos around them. Through various methods, Pynchon imposes a fictional world of chaos on the world of the reader, a world already f...
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Boston Little Brown Crying Of Lot 49
1,820 wordsThe philosophy behind all Pynchon novels lies in the synthesis of philosophers and modern physicists. Ludwig Wittgenstein viewed the world as a totality of facts, not of things. 1 This idea can be combined with a physicists view of the world as a clos ed system that tends towards chaos. Pynchon asserts that the measure of the world is its entropy. 2 He extends this metaphor to his fictional world. He envelops the reader, through various means, within the system of The Crying of Lot 49. Pynchon d...
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Made Her Feel Colonel Pickering
400 wordsHow could a lowly flower girl make such a drastic change into a refined lady? She could not have possibly pulled it off herself; she would need help. Thus is the case in the play Pygmalion, by G. B. Shaw. The poor flower girl, Eliza, is turned into a duchess, so to speak, by the other characters in the play. The characters responsible for the change in Eliza throughout the play were Henry Higgins, Mrs. Pierce, and Colonel Pickering, all of which had strong influences on her either mentally or ph...
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