tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6535481649727720492.post1466535867899907771..comments2024-03-27T21:43:02.451-04:00Comments on NEW SAVANNA: Harman’s Tables and Abundance: Tipped Toward PluralismBill Benzonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08360044945265178991noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6535481649727720492.post-88589950428142269462012-10-04T16:23:06.141-04:002012-10-04T16:23:06.141-04:00"Catalyst" is the right word for your ro..."Catalyst" is the right word for your role, Terry. I brought my own intellectual history to OOO. And one of the things that struck me about OOO is the some of the things (mostly) Harman was saying were very like ideas I had encountered and adopted before, but out of a very different history. Your history is not only independent of mine, but it is very different in kind. More like HarmanBill Benzonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08360044945265178991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6535481649727720492.post-49012377918671882402012-10-04T15:53:25.802-04:002012-10-04T15:53:25.802-04:00I am glad to have been one of the catalysts in you...I am glad to have been one of the catalysts in your (re)turn to pluralism. I say catalyst and not influence because one of the good aspects of your posts is that you have being doing some serious anamnesis on your intellectual development, revisiting older phases and influences (Kuhn, Gibson, and David Hays). Individuation involves creating something new with something old, which one realises is Terence Blakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14936707523015565137noreply@blogger.com