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(excerpts from articles in academic philosophy journal http://www.janushead.org/index.cfm, random)
"Since conversation sometimes depends on or includes truth claims, the authentic conversation will also be built on the possibility that “I am wrong.” "
''Your practical programming, your drawing up of mental blueprints and engineering your undertakings, your own character management work to implant and extend a zone of lucid intelligibility in your life and environ- ment. But your fantasy space is dominated by a sense of chance and luck. The improbable chance that you were conceived and born, the chance that you—you—are alive, the unforeseeable accidents that befall you each day, the auspicious and baleful omens, the good and bad luck that really are what gave heat and light to you, the you that says “I.”''
In 1957, Leon Festinger introduced the theory of cognitive dissonance to psychology. Cognitive dissonance is an unpleasant state of arousal caused by conflict between thoughts and/or beliefs and behavior.
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I practiced hunger
the fine print of beginnings,
encounters, almost fateful
he span of years, a wave,
buoys me to this moment
when I discover
nothing was too much.
volition integument- covering, coating, a natural cover like skin, shell rind
ACHING ARCHING
ENNUI
SURFEIT- excess, overflow
superabundance
Something that hinders, engulfs, or overwhelms: a morass of details. low lying
"The word you have fixed in yourself is fixed in your sensibility, your nervous circuitry, your circadian rhythms, your momentum, and your tempo. It vanishes from the conscious mind which can fill itself with new words and scenarios. You no longer have to recall, in the midst of morning concerns that require your attention, that word “dancer” uttered in yourself; you instinctually head for the dance studio and feel restless and tied down if you are prevented from going.
It is this word that makes you thoughtful. The rows of trees and the daily movement of clouds overhead, the birds that chatter in your back yard, the landmarks and the paths you take every day, the tasks that are laid out for you every day, the patterns of conversation with acquaintances, the concepts that exist to classify these things and the connections between them—these lull the mind which glows feebly in their continuities and recurrences; they do not make it thoughtful. Instead, thought results from language, thought arises out of the word you put to yourself—a word of honor. This word interrupts the continuities of nature and silences the babble of others in yourself. It is the power you feel in yourself when you fix yourself with a word, stand and advance in that word, the feeling that you are making your own nature determinable, steadfast, trustworthy, that makes you look for regularities, necessities, calculable forms in the flux of external nature. Once you have said “I will be a dancer,” you begin to really determine what the things about you are, you begin to understand anatomy, the effects of exercise, of diet, the effects of great teachers and grand models, the workings of a whole cross-section of urban society. It is the man or woman of his or her word who is thoughtful. "
Sometimes a sentence can be understood only if it is read at the right tempo. (Wittgenstein, 1980, p.57) |
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