On the experience of Anxiety The Absence of correspondence between appearance and what it.

Ontology and Epistimology Ontology: the study of what is Ontological: referring to what is Ontic: referring to what is basic Epistimology: The study of how do we know Epistimological: referring to the method by which we know. 1. empirically 2. rationally or cognitively (all bachelors are not married)

The absence of correspondence between the ontological and epistemology Post modern Science challenges conceptions of “Truth, Meaning, Causality” by exposing that there is no correspondence between the ontological, what is, and what we say there is, epistemology. There is no epistemological = ontological match (i.e is see it there for it is)

A basic paradoxical feature of human life Language

What is under consideration is not the ontological state of affairs, but the ontological commitment of a discourse (i.e. language/empistology) What there is does not depend on ones use of language (What you call something does it change what it is). But what one says there is, does depend on one’s use of language.

Another paradox of the human condition What we say exist depends on our use of language; we can say it without being ontologically (actually) committed to it, because we don’t have to believe what we say

So it is a fallacy to believe in a coherency between a state of affairs (what is) and our conceptions and discourse on those state of affairs (how we know). But also it is a fallacy to believe that there is a coherency between our conceptions and discourse, and our psychological states. The conceptions that we use to discuss our emotional and psychological states do not necessarily correspond to what is actually going on.

The significance of these paradoxes We have to keep these paradoxes in mind. It is the case that people continue to insist on truth, that the is truth, and it is knowable that certain occurrences mean something in particular (i.e. you forgetting means you don’t care) Causality: that this caused that.

The phenomena of experience We have experiences: and there are many theories of how we organize our experiences into something meaningful. Many say that there is something fundamental about the mind/consciousness that organized experiences into basic categories or cultural posits; for example, time and space