Rhetorical Poverty: Revisited
That an opinion has been expressed may be a fact but that the opinion necessarily represents a fact (or truth) does not logically follow… Continue reading Rhetorical Poverty: Revisited
Category: communication
Lost in Translation
I often write as reflection to other’s thoughts and words, as comments or critical remarks upon other ideas. This tends to lead me more into my own meanings and worlds wrought of words. This is a high-wire act of balancing … Continue reading Lost in Translation
11:47:30 – Doomsday Clock
In case you missed it, a couple of days ago the Doomsday Clock was moved 30 seconds closer to Global Armageddon, catastrophe, destruction, devastation – pick your best adjective. The Doomsday Clock is a symbolic clock face that has been … Continue reading 11:47:30 – Doomsday Clock
Information: Mass & Self-Gravitation
Information storage is delayed communication. The capability to reliably record information creates a repository into which the simultaneously recursive and reflexive functions of language and communication can refer. Language is an incomplete logical system of self-reference… Continue reading Information: Mass & Self-Gravitation
Language: Semantics & Abbreviation
Communication is intellectual oxygen. The ability to send and receive messages and to fundamentally agree on the meaning of those messages is essential to participating in a shared world. Ambiguity in communication is catered for by mental flexibility… Continue reading Language: Semantics & Abbreviation
Communication: The Problem
The Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein identified some interesting problems of language. Language is a logical system through which we communicate. Language is also that through which we very often fail to understand what is being conveyed to us, that is – it is that through which we fail to communicate clearly… Continue reading Communication: The Problem
