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Showing posts with label language. Show all posts
Monday, 14 June 2021

Understanding Culture Helps Explain Why It Matters

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André Malraux once wrote: “Culture is both the heritage and the noblest possession of the world.” Posted by Keith Tidman What is culture? Th...
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Sunday, 15 November 2020

A Suicidal Bias

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by Tessa den Uyl ‘With men came suicide’ could have flown out of Pandora’s box, as well as, ‘I think therefore I suffer’. Even when our agon...
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Monday, 10 February 2020

What Is It to Be Human?

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Hello, world! Posted by Keith Tidman C onsciousness is the mental anchor to which we attach our larger sense of reality. We are cons...
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Monday, 12 August 2019

Pragmatism: its Conception of Unverified Truth #2

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Essay by an anonymous contributor* reposted from Pi Alpha   In this, the second of two posts, Pi presents reflections on ‘Pragmatism’...
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Monday, 29 July 2019

Pragmatism: its Conception of Verified Truth #1

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Essay by an anonymous contributor* reposted from Pi Alpha In this, the first of two posts, Pi presents reflections on ‘Pragmatism...
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Monday, 26 November 2018

How Language Connects Mind, World, and Reality

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The Chinese characters for not only ‘meaning’ but for ‘connotation, denotation, import, gist, substance, significance, signification, ...
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Monday, 6 August 2018

To Be is to Inherit

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'Because things don’t appear to be the known thing; they aren’t what they seemed to be neither will they become what they ...
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Monday, 29 January 2018

Poetry: On Name-dropping

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Posted by Chengde Chen * On Name-dropping D on’t keep dropping those great names Showing off is self-abasing Being tall may l...
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Monday, 18 December 2017

Representing Reality: Magritte on Words and Images

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Representing reality* By Martin Cohen W hat is the relationship of words and paintings to mental representations - and 'reality...
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Monday, 27 June 2016

The Misconstruction of Construction

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Posted by Christian Sötemann More than one philosophical theory has been suggested as a way to construe the world primarily as a con...
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Monday, 25 April 2016

On ‘No Explanation’

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A new poem by Chengde Chen which also mark s the occasion of the first ‘birthday’ of the blog Note from the Editors Today mark...
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Monday, 29 February 2016

The Difficulty of Change

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Posted by Tessa den Uyl  We often use the word 'change' in our conversation. Everybody seems to understand such expressions as: c...
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