Incident
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| - | The incident differs from material phenomena only by it's involvement with perception; an incident, then, is defined by it's relation to a viewer, who acts both as intrepreter and associational instigator. As the folk way suggests, if a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to witness it, did it fall? The question here is not of objective reality, it is rather a teleological question -- in short, if a tree falls in the forest and nobody sees it, does it matter? The theorists of the Incident suggest not; natural activity occuring outside perception is of little, if any, concern. | + | The incident differs from other material phenomena only by it's involvement with perception and in this light can be studied under the mantle of etiology; the eye plays the part of an infecting agent of Mind, infusing the whole with meaning. In short, the Incident, then, is defined by it's relation to a viewer, who acts both as intrepreter and associational instigator. As further explanation, we may relax into the vernacular: if a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to witness it, did it fall? The question moves from pure materialism to one of teleological concern, arguably the territory of cognition. To elaborate, if a tree falls in the forest and nobody sees it, ''does it matter?'' Theorists of the Incident suggest not; natural activity occuring outside perception is of little, if any, concern. |
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Incident pop. 1. Something contingent on or related to something else. 2. An occurrence or event that interrupts normal procedure or precipitates a crisis. 3. Falling upon or striking a surface.
Extrapolation
The incident differs from other material phenomena only by it's involvement with perception and in this light can be studied under the mantle of etiology; the eye plays the part of an infecting agent of Mind, infusing the whole with meaning. In short, the Incident, then, is defined by it's relation to a viewer, who acts both as intrepreter and associational instigator. As further explanation, we may relax into the vernacular: if a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to witness it, did it fall? The question moves from pure materialism to one of teleological concern, arguably the territory of cognition. To elaborate, if a tree falls in the forest and nobody sees it, does it matter? Theorists of the Incident suggest not; natural activity occuring outside perception is of little, if any, concern.
Desiderata
- Meat sometimes appears on the horizon -- a hundred years apart!
