Friday, May 22, 2009
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?
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)
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?
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.
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.
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