[HN Gopher] The geometry of other people
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       The geometry of other people
        
       Author : Petiver
       Score  : 72 points
       Date   : 2024-01-18 23:13 UTC (23 hours ago)
        
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       | vmfunction wrote:
       | Nice to see some cognitive semiotics surfacing on HN.
        
       | blastro wrote:
       | the original WWW
        
       | DiscourseFan wrote:
       | Yes, the most famous thinker who is associated with this idea of
       | _architecture_ being also a _social_ architecture is Foucault
       | (which he discusses heavily in his book Discipline  & Punish),
       | but it really goes back to Immanuel Kant in the _Critique of Pure
       | Reason_ , where he describes the total system of Reason[0] that
       | is required to make any judgement whatsoever as _architectonic_ ,
       | and described these structures _architecture_.
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       | [0]I say _Reason_ , and not cognition, because for Kant cognition
       | is empirical, and the purpose of the _Critique of Pure Reason_ is
       | to find the conditions of possibility for empirical reality to
       | appear to us, so the total system that, in its reflection, can
       | make those conditions appear to us (that is, the Critique
       | itself), cannot, although it appears to the senses, actually
       | itself be from within them--it must be _purely_ intelligible. If
       | you 're curious how Kant solves this dilemma, well, so was
       | everyone else, and the whole of the German, and then later anglo-
       | american and French philosophical traditions have been remarkably
       | pre-occupied with this question.
        
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