Alexis McLeod
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771 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2018
last heard Apr 2020
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There's something that's interesting.
Near the end, they talk about the reason they needed to write it down, because the Popol Vuh could no longer be seen, with the idea being that it was originally supposed to be performed, not kind of read as a text.
And the reason they put it in this text is because the Spanish were suppressing this, which is interesting because it seems like what's being expressed there and what's being expressed in movement and in dance is something that you really can't say.
Is that kind of an idea that arises in the traditions that you're talking
Right, right.
So one thing I wanted to ask about is that you talk about one of the interesting things you say early on in the book.
You talk about this distinction between knowing as active and dynamic and native epistemology versus knowledge as dependent on what you call thingifying human experience, which is the latter, which strikes me as very similar to what you see in the early Chinese text Zhuangzi.
What are the key differences between these two kinds of knowing?
Right, right.
Knowledge as a kind of action, dynamic.
That's interesting.
And you talk about this kind of connected to, because in analysis of knowledge, you talk about this connected to truth as well, which ends up being a kind of dynamic and active notion of truth that you call truthing, which I thought was fascinating.
And you connect this to what you call the procedural analysis of truth.
I wonder, could you say a bit more about how truth is dynamic in this way?
This is interesting.
There's actually some kind of close similarities with some of the things that you see in some of the things I work on in the Chinese tradition in the Han Dynasty, where human concerns come into the picture when you're talking about truth, right?
So as you mentioned being normative, right, that part of what we're
part of what we're thinking about when we're thinking about whether something is true is whether there's a property that we're actually seeking and that we actually care about that we can actually kind of do something with.
This strikes me as very similar to what's going on in Native American tradition.
Epistemology.
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