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Another linguistics trip on Wiki

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:6. September 2012
Post category:Language Linguistics/language Logic Math/Statistics
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I just wanted to look up some stuff on the questions that a teacher had posed. Since i dont actually have the book, and since one cant search…

Thoughts about: An Introduction to Language (Fromkin et al)

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:24. April 2012
Post category:Language Linguistics/language
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Victoria Fromkin, Robert Rodman, Nina Hyams - An Introduction to Language I thought i better read a linguistics textbook before i start studying it formally. Who wud want to look…

More on pomo nonsense

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:11. April 2012
Post category:Language
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http://www.fudco.com/chip/deconstr.html - http://www.amazon.com/Higher-Superstition-Academic-Quarrels-Science/dp/0801857074 I cudnt find it online due to the dam copyright trolls. - http://www.amazon.com/Intellectual-Impostures-Alan-Sokal/dp/1861976313?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1175453315&sr=8-2 Same with this one. - http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/chomsky-on-postmodernism.html Noam Chomsky on nonsense pomo. Since no one…

Towards a logic of questions and answers

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:21. January 2012
Post category:Language
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So, i aktualy roet sum filosofy for a chanj and the analytik kiend. Heer is the paeper i handed in for mie eksam in Filosofikal Lojik. I plan on ekspanding…

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:28. December 2011
Post category:Language
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I was thinking and doing som reserch about one of my kurent projects: Making an English languaj that is syntakialy limited such that it makes posible automatik translation into lojikal…

Languaj and thot

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:19. December 2011
Post category:Language
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Sins the title of my blogs in based on the idea that languaj influenses thots and reversely, it seems apropriate to rite a bit about this. I did som reeding…

Reeding material: Meta-filosofy, bad thinking and bad languaj

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:24. November 2011
Post category:Language Metaphilosophy
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I hav beleevd for many years that th clarity of one's languaj corelates (both ways) very much with how clearly one thinks, hence th name of my blogs. I hav…

Swartz and Bradley on Janus-faced sentences

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:13. November 2011
Post category:Language Logic
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Exerpt from Possible Worlds. It is a pees of very useful information. --------- Janus-faced sentences The method of possible-worlds testing is not only an invaluable aid towards resolving ambiguity; it…

Ebook: Lakoff – Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:8. September 2011
Post category:Language Linguistics/language Psychology
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Somone requested this. George Lakoff - Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things

Example of how one’s language influences one’s thinking: Calculating with different bases in math

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:25. August 2011
Post category:Language
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Read this exchange. Calculating in non-base 10 is so very hard, even for bright individuals. However, it has not always been like this. I think that I will rite a…