Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Hmmm...

These articles made me think more critically about the truth, rather than clear up classification themes. I enjoyed the attention brought to the fact that not everything one reads about and hears is the truth. Many times we get caught up in the story and not the facts. We would rather hear and talk about what we enjoy, what we can laugh about, and steer clear of the truth, thus creating almost a Utopia around us. Simply put, facts can get dull. Expressing ideas differently and new classifications bring about new styles of storytelling, which...let's face it...we all love. :-)
At times, I wonder if what we know now and our theories today will be completely debunked in the future, or will our facts and knowledge continue to evolve and be told? The Cabinet article made a very good point about how our grandparents disproved their own grandparents in myths and creatures thought to exist. There is and always has been a "problem of continuity" (Cabinet article, page 83). I believe this is why classification schemes are interesting to study, because something always evolves into something else (thus, the continuity problem). I am curious as to what classifications our class can come up with and intrigued to see new theories.

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