“Stop raping language!”
I love when people use the phrase "Stop raping language!". It's a bloody inconsistent performative.
Work in progress…
As it can be seen, the blog has been divided into an english and a danish section. This is the english section. I'm in the progress of removing danish language…
“More desirable” and “less undesirable”
“In sharp contrast, men more than women tended to rate egoistic dominant acts as more socially desirable, including “Managing to get one's own way,” “Flattering to get one's own way,”…
Quote: George Burns
"There will always be a conflict between the sexes because men and women want different things. Men want women and women want men." (Quoted in David M. Buss, Evolutionary Psychology,…
Stephen Law and Nigel Warburton's "Five Questions About Clarity"
This essay on clarity is great and short. Read it.
Quote: "jeeprs"
Discussing logic at PhilosophyForum.com (my new forum of choice soon to be): "My only other observation at this point is the degree of difficulty associated with the notion of 'objectivity'.…
Semantic Analysis and meaning
Again I'm quoting Paul Ziff's Semantic Analysis: 41. [...] Consequently, if my contention about meaning is correct, then the first 'do' in 'Please do not do it!', unlike the second…
Paul Ziff's Semantic Analysis and Onomatopoeia
Onomatopoeia You may wonder what the word “Onomatopoeia” means, and so did I when I first saw it. It's one of those unnecessarily long foreign words which meaning is unguessable…
Logical interpretation of subjects, the utterer and the utterance situation
Interpretation I earlier wrote of the logical interpretation of subjects.1 There I suggested, following Russell, that the subject of a descriptive, active, meaningful (DAM) sentence should be interpreted as an…
Quote: Paul Ziff
[Discussing the type/token distinction or ambiguity] "I shall not in general try to eliminate these ambiguities by explicitly stating which sense is intended. Sometimes both senses are intended, sometimes not.…
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