JK asking about empiricism (reasoning from experience?).
What if observation & theory are actually the same thing. (As "nature" is a synonym of "artifice".) In both we see patterns & interpret them. & what if both are always "conjectural" (as in Nicholas Cusanus, or Karl Popper).
So maybe a poem is an observation-theory.
Say that again? A poem is. . .
"I work hard, I work long, on a body of words until it grants me complete possession and pleasure. If the reader has to work in his turn - so much the better. Art is difficult. Easy art is what you see at modern exhibitions of things and doodles." - Vladimir Nabokov
8.06.2003
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conjectures,
Cusanus,
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Jack Kimball,
Nabokov
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