Posted by ron dw on June 13, 1999 at 09:56:27:

In Reply to: Re: Good philosophical ontology? posted by Reilly Atkinson on June 11, 1999 at 21:16:09:

Mr. Atkinson,

Perhaps science and metaphysics will always remain sibling rivals, but I sincerely hope they will stay on speaking terms. Allow me one more chance to explain the perhaps unexplainable.

Contracted perception = the millions of material, extended, vibrations or elementary shocks that we "tense" into a felt quality of spatial sensations.

Contracted recollected perception = intelligent domination and utilization of matter not in terms of differences of degree but of kind or tendencies beneath the differences in degree, stating the problem and pushing beyond experience a direction drawn from experience itself, kept in a collection of memories.

We perceive things where they are, perception puts us at once into matter, is impersonal, and coincides with the perceived object. Continuing on this same line, the whole of Bergson's method consists, first of all, in seeking the terms between which there could not be a difference in kind: There cannot be a difference in kind, but only a difference in degree between the faculty of the brain and the function of the core, between the perception of matter and matter itself (Deleuze, 1991:25).

Best regards,
Ron C. de Weijze

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