Why use religious language at all - what does it compress that technical language doesn’t?
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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
48d ago“Should China's linguistic 'harmonizing' of Tibetan children be considered cultural assimilation or necessary integration?”
- chauncedog60...
The wizards of wordsmithing know full well that "spelling" is a fundamental pathway to the cerebral cortex, and other high level mechanisms of the abstract reasoning skills that define advanced consciousness.The sabotage and bastardization of language, and the simple natural... - aharoni...
I disagree with two key points. "Idiot savant" is generally a problematic term. We're in 2025, and we should beyond this condescending attitude to neurodivergent people. And in any case, it's not a very good comparison.... - onDoes anyone else have aesthetic preferences about the 6 digit numbers that get texted, emailed or generated as part of a website sign in process?by
Reminds me of the Bouba/Kiki effect. 6 and 9 and nice round bouba numbers. 1 and 7 are pretty Kiki
You're awesome! I saw a post today where a mom was lamenting her (kindergarten) daughter being referred to as "they" instead of "she" at school. It's happened to me a few times, too, all with the sanctimonious air of a rescuer, and it gives me the ick.... I am now wondering about the term "erotic" v "attraction" and I am in limbo. I like using "erotic" specifically to point to how often we conflate the sexual impulse with the larger category. But I like attractive to point to an already more nuetral term, like you're saying.... This makes a lot of sense to me, and I agree with it! should has a quality of moral judgement, and in that it assumes a kind of knowing. "I know that this is how it should be." Whereas could has a quality of not-knowing.... - stephen...
- xander...
You’re nosing into the heart of it. "No belief is true" is just the grandaddy of the map is not the territory, so: The belief is not the true At least with maps we know they are maps, but with belief we’ve forgotten and confuse the map with the terrain so much that we can’t... - david...
Isn’t part of the paradox the nounification of "truth" in English? It seems the closest synonym might be "Tao" which is neither simply static, nor simply dynamic, and not representable, only experienceable.... As a provocation, I’d prefer: No statement / belief is true, including this one. ---- I prefer it when sentences that are grammatically knowledge claims ("X is Y", "X is not Y") are spoken because the speaker actually is making a knowledge claim....