Monday, January 12, 2009

learning things from fictions, part three

part one
part two

One way we can learn things from fictions that I forgot to mention is rather similar to another way I have discussed (having our concepts stretched, or being taught new concepts). And this (roughly) reminding us of something we already knew. That is, everybody knows that there's a genocide going on in Darfur. But nobody really knows it - feels it, sees it the way they see the hand in front of their face. Fictions can help remind us of these things, or of things we've forgotten, or haven't exactly noticed before.

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