
That's one way to characterize a difference, sure. Keep in mind I'm bucking to be this writer guy in American literature, but not so specialized that I couldn't hold my own in various math and computer science contexts. I studied philo at Princeton and for the longest time fought with Ivory Tower philosophy types to get recognition for Fuller as a great 20th century philosopher (not mathematician, not geometer).[1] Only later did I change my tune, to some extent following Applewhite's lead, and move towards literature, which I've found more congenial in the long run. Rorty's arc has been somewhat similar I understand (Richard Rorty was my thesis adviser back when I was writing about Wittgenstein's later philo for academic credit (now I just do it for the money :-D)). Nor have I entirely abandoned my quest for a revival within the Philosophy tent -- just modified my approach and strategy, based on what I've learned from literature (which includes television, e.g. Joss Whedon's corpus).[2] Kirby [1] http://www.grunch.net/synergetics/stanford.html [2] http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2005/12/more-tv-talk.html