Community is the Movement of Mind(s)

Dear Colleagues Across the Community
(and Transcendental Romantics)

X. Community is the Movement of Minds
Z. Community is the Movement of Mind.

Can you tell the difference—between X & Z?
The relationship (Y)?

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Logic (on the one hand)

(If) All men die
(and) Socrates is a man.
(then) Socrates dies.

Analogic (analogy on the other)

(if) Grass dies
(and) Men die
(then) Men are grass.

Meta-logic (?) ______(term needed)

Help me. What might stand for that
mode & move that puts both logic
and analogic in play? I need a
super-ordinatee 3^rd term.

Transcendentistry?

Let it be transcendentistry for now:
The capacity to put both logic and
analogic, literal and metaphorical,
in play, without getting stuck in either—
or doing injustice to either, either.

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“Well THAT sounds logical to ME,
says Sarah Palin, meaning merely
that she understands: it makes her
sense—she’s not thinking syllogistically.

She might also say IT sounds reasonable
to me, meaning the same thing:
she LIKES it—

(not that she tracks follows the ratios and
relays of relationship and the propositional
purity that the proposal carries.)

Or she might say: ILLOGICAL ! meaning:
I don’t get it at all.

Or she might say AWESOME: meaning
that suits me fine & not a matter of
shock & awe..

And it would be mean to ask her to define
“logic” and “reasonable” and “awesome.”
A downer. A show stopper.

It’d be like asking Dr. K to define Founding
Mothers (the matriarchy) or the meaning of
liberal—or whether The Republic is about
Politics or Virtue…. in the middle of a lecture.

It’d be like tossing a monkey wrench into a
momentarily well-oiled town hall meeting,
graduation speech, executive report or press
conference where the words-we-use carry
us along just fine unless someone, anyone,
stops the movement and says:

well, what do you mean by
“reasonable”?
Define your terms. Let’s get
to the bottom of this.

See what I’m saying?
Conversational Velocity
or Definitional Position.
Got to choose.
Can’t have both at the same time.

(I contradict myself: we surely could have
conversational velocity ABOUT definitional
position: that would be awesome! Imagine:
talking about some deal AND talking about
how we’re talking about it, at more & less
the same time. That would be some DIA-
LECTIC going on, right there. Cross-talk.
Movement of minds and mind.
Community.)

xxxooo, Sam