/lit/ - Literature

What a plebtier community. Post-structuralism is the only philosophy I've ever really studied with interest. Is it really that tough?

Here's an explanation even you simpletons should understand. Temperature is usually defined on a scale from hot to cold. But what if you were life that never knew a difference in temperature? Maybe you live on a neutron star or beneath the ice on a far away moon where the temperature is a non factor. Now imagine your species is introduced to heat for the first time in it's existence. While humans innately know the spectrum and STRUCTURE of temperature this new species has no point of reference for such a thing. To understand how this creature would look at something as drastic as temperature when it's never known it before we need to move PAST our common ideas on the STRUCTURE of temperature. Thereby we become POST-STRUCTURALISTS. Wasn't that easy?