Loneliness begins in language. Not just in what cannot be said, but in what is said and does not arrive. A sentence needs uptake to become real. When no one receives it, the words complete their neat arc and fall back like rain on sealed glass. The echo confirms existence yet withholds communion. The world […]
Do you agree with the Danish #philosopher and theologian, Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855)? Language mediates not only our experience of the #world but our very structure of experiencing. While #language moves us emotionally and affectively, this felt immediacy is itself a #product of deeper, patterned regularities—mathematical, logical architectures through which meaning is sustained and extended. In […]
One’s relationship with others feels, to me, to be a subset of one’s relationship with one’s self; and vice versa. Regardless that that’s one hell of a lot of ones, Kierkegaard made the point that this introspective opening up of structure precisely is the self, the mind, our experience and the world. I only saw […]
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