Tag: perception

• “Peacemakers” sidebar: Eliot’s egoic ontology

  A short post to accompany the Primitive Peacemakers series, with some quotes from Middlemarch that otherwise wouldn’t make it in. Eliot repeatedly returns to the observation that individuals’ sense of the world—from morality to category to truth—is by default egocentric. This, in my read, is a logical extension of pragmatism from the level of cultural…

  suspendedreason

  April 24, 2023

  Blog

  egoic ontology, George Eliot, meaning, Middlemarch, perception, pragmatism, provincialism, strategic conceptualization

• Aesthetics vs. Microsociology

  The problems of perception, assessment, category, association, prestige… What we are coming to call generalized reading.

  suspendedreason

  September 7, 2021

  Diagrams

  aesthetics, generalized reading, literature, meaning, microsociology, perception, prestige

• Epistemic Strategies pt. 1

  This is the first of a two-part essay on strategic manipulations of other agents’ epistemic states. Part One lays the groundwork by tying together theories of metonyms, expression games, and signals vs. cues. Part Two will lay out the epistemic axes of legibility vs. illegibility, commitment vs. flexibility, and ignorance vs. knowingness, and the situations…

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  May 12, 2021

  Essays

  abduction, epistemology, Erving Goffman, generalized reading, intrinsic empowerment, keeping upwind, metonyms, OODA loop, perception, predictive processing, signaling theory, sociality, strategic epistemology, strategic ignorance, strategic interaction, Thomas Kuhn, William James