Tag: language

• CAN

  1. To be able to express some thing is to be unable to express others. To be able to do some thing is to be unable to do others. True omnipotence is an incoherent concept. Moreover, the things I am able or unable to accomplish are themselves a function of my ability to discern and…

  suspendedreason

  October 24, 2022

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  coordination, framing, freedom, Isaiah Berlin, language, social heuristics, structuralism

• Strategic Conceptualization

  When consequences are the result of categorization, people will perform categories to attain their desired consequences. Categories carry with them a mix of connotations (social reputations) and decision rules (conventions for associated practice). Decision rules, that is, are domain-specific actions conditionally undertaken on the basis of whether a object or event under consideration is ruled…

  suspendedreason

  June 28, 2022

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  Alexandre Dumas, general semantics, Josh Harris, language, linguistics, Noah Baumbach, strategic conceptualization, strategic interaction, words as decision rules

• Pfeilstorch Progress: Games, Dialectic, Spirit

  I launched a [Discord server with a] small community of friends, which has this year, 2021, evolved into an online forum. Our mascot is the pfeilstorch. We’re interested in the inexact sciences, and moreover, in the rigorizing pipeline that got us from natural philosophy to biology, or alchemy to chemistry.

  suspendedreason

  May 11, 2021

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  all communication is manipulation, Bruno Latour, degenerate play, discursive games, erisology, Erving Goffman, Franz Boas, games, generalized reading, Interpretation, John Nerst, language, language games, LessWrong, linguistics, opticratics, Pfeilstorch, Pierre Bourdieu, Sapir-Whorf, Sigmund Freud, strategic epistemology, surrogation, telephone effect, the inexact sciences, Thomas Schelling