After blog 1

I have never read a philosophical text, nevertheless a philosophical text from the early 1900’s. It was initially very difficult for me to understand why I read the text and I had a hard time understanding the message. The first thing I thought was “this is the reason why I’m in engineering, I do not understand these things!!”, things like "is the table still there when I close my eyes." makes me crazy!! Of course it still exists when I close my eyes! I’m definitely not used to these kinds of thoughts.

After reading other people's blog posts, I’m not sure if I got a better picture of what I actually have read and learned. Since we did not have the opportunity to listen to a lecture or discuss during the seminar, I don’t think that I learned as much as I could have after writing the first blog post. But I have realized a couple of things! I think that it is impressive how the other students have expressed themselves about this kind of text. I have no experience of analyzing or explaining psychological texts and I can’t believe how much people got out of the text. I really hope I can develop my ability to interpret and analyze texts like this in the course. At the same time as I was impressed, I felt that a lot of blog posts where hard to understand because they complicated things instead of making it easier to understand. But I think that these complicated explanations demonstrate how difficult it is to understand these definitions.