Tag: linguistics
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Lewis & Clark Linguistics
This is a lightly edited version of a talk given at Fluidity Forum in September 2023. Expect scattered transcription errors. A few years ago, some friends and I started a group called The Inexact Sciences, or TIS for short. We run a group blog called tis.so that some people might know. And we took as our…
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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…
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Précis for an action-oriented theory of language
What is a word, or message, or utterance? It is a move by an agent (~superorganism) undertaken in order to transform the environmental state, in a desired direction, by means of altering another agent’s information state. This transformation may occur directly, if the targeted slice of environment happens to be that agent whose informational state…
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A landscape of communication
This is the sixth installment in a ten-part series. All Communication is Manipulation All Communication is Behavioral Manipulation Consensual and Nonconsensual Manipulation ACiM is a Natural Extension of Cybernetic Theory Response to Simpolism on ACiM A Landscape of Communication All Is Well E28: Functional Railroading All Is Well E28: “My Hands Are Tied” Girls S2:…
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ACiM is a natural extension of cybernetic theory
This is the fourth installment in a ten-part series. All Communication is Manipulation All Communication is Behavioral Manipulation Consensual and Nonconsensual Manipulation ACiM is a Natural Extension of Cybernetic Theory Response to Simpolism on ACiM A Landscape of Communication All Is Well E28: Functional Railroading All Is Well E28: “My Hands Are Tied” Girls S2:…
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All Communication is Behavioral Manipulation
This is the second installment in a ten-part series. All Communication is Manipulation All Communication is Behavioral Manipulation Consensual and Nonconsensual Manipulation ACiM is a Natural Extension of Cybernetic Theory Response to Simpolism on ACiM A Landscape of Communication All Is Well E28: Functional Railroading All Is Well E28: “My Hands Are Tied” Girls S2:…
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All Communication is Manipulation
This essay is the first in a ten-installment series, but can be read as a standalone introduction: All Communication is Manipulation All Communication is Behavioral Manipulation Consensual and Nonconsensual Manipulation ACiM is a Natural Extension of Cybernetic Theory Response to Simpolism on ACiM A Landscape of Communication All Is Well E28: Functional Railroading All Is…
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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.
