Friday, May 22, 2009

I'm trying to...

set myself free.

Sunday, January 11, 2009

What is?

What is the point of this? Of all this? Can I do something and be done with it, and say, yes, that is satisfactory? Should I make a task so I can finish it?

And will past and present accomplishments arising from these tasks of that life fade away with the unreliability of memory?

Wednesday, July 4, 2007

Interesting Theory of the Day: Mutual Knowledge

mutual knowledge (1969/1970) Linguistics Several congruent proposals, including that of the American philosopher David Kellogg Lewis, and that of the sociolinguist William Labov ('AB-events')
Shared knowledge between speakers, which is assumed in communication: A has knowledge K that B knows, A knows that B knows K, B knows that A knows K and that A knows that B knows K, and so on.

N V Smith, ed., Mutual Knowledge (London, 1982)

Source: J Bothamley, Dictionary of Theories (Detroit, 2002)

Saturday, June 9, 2007

Rush, Rush

Rush, rush,
Pressure,
Trouble,
Panic,
Fix it,
Too bad?
No time,
Go on,
Trouble,
Fix it,
No time,
Good-bye,
Go on?

Friday, June 8, 2007

What to Do with Oneself

I have a very vague idea of what's going to happen after I graduate. I try not to think about it too much. It's getting to be a sort of shadow that follows me around wherever I go.
There are different viewpoints, different ways to approach the fact that nothing in life is guaranteed. School gives one a sense of certainty where there is normally very little.