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Freewriting, 6
2008-02-11 21:40:00 A. Philosopher as Musician Musicians read sheet music, interpret it, arrange it, work out proper fingerings, make margin notes and so forth, so that when they perform the piece, they will convey their interpretation accurately and pleasingly. Philosophers read books and articles, they glean new ideas or new expressions of familiar ideas, they critically engage ...
Freewriting, 5
2008-02-06 20:22:00 We might say that Wittgenstein?s early philosophy, viz. the Tractatus, went astray when he attempted to say something about the world. His later insight was that ?The world is all that is the case? is not a starting point in philosophical investigation. It is the reason that there is philosophical investigation to begin ...
Freewriting, 4
2008-02-06 16:55:00 World-reading commits us to a metaphysical position. If a world-reading is analogous to a literary reading, where the text is the stuff to which we all have access, then for the analogy to work well, there should be stuff in the world to which we all have access. The nature of that stuff ...
How much do you love your notebooks?
2008-02-04 01:14:00 Click on the image to the right to see the full size page.Ah, yes, strange photos. What do you think it is in today's photo? Is it some weird yacht mast? Support poles for some trapeze act? A bizarre new voting system destined for installation in Uganda?Don't blame me for all this weirdness today, blame blogger. Yeeess, Blogger, that tries to tell me there's no facility for uploading pictures or checking your spelling. Actually, Blogger and I have been getting along quite well lately (Except for it's infernal internal spell checker). Which is nice, because we're spending a lot of time together. Blogger is one of the best excuses I've found for free writing, which is the writing that gives speed strength and endurance to all the other writing I do."Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you derive from what you do."- Michael KordaSome days serious writing wears me down, the angst, the anger, the injustice and the sickness I write about every...
Freewriting, 3
2008-01-31 20:30:00 Maybe the image is ?in the head?, but it certainly came from outside of the head in some significant sense. The sources of our imagery are external, if you will. We look at things in the world, we notice connections between object and activities and so forth, and those cognitive exercises are the ...
Freewriting, 2
2008-01-30 20:32:00 When Wittgenstein writes about ?meaning?, we should wonder whether he is only talking about the meaning of words. We should wonder what the ?unit of significance? might be ? might it also be the paragraph or the page or the book? Where lies the ?meaning? in which he?s interested. It would be odd to think ...
Liberation of Thoughts : Freewriting
2008-01-30 05:47:00 Let me finish my RA application first and then I will definitely come back to this topic. A very intriguing topic - I must say. I was introduced to this topic just yesterday and I am already feeling soo excited about this..but, my application first!So yea...done with my RA applications. Back to freewriting - freewriting promotes the concept that people should write non-stop and put down any thought that comes to their heads and write without any constraints. No need for rewriting, no heed to grammar, no respect for structure and what not! so yea lets try it people! this is just so cool....as one of my friends put it...its so "khool!" or rather its soo "khikass"....Yea so, about freewriting - i am going to try freewriting about freewriting. Lets start - 1, 2, 3. So yea freewriting, see this freewriting thing is just simply complicated - another term coined by one of my friends - so simply complicated. This is just so easy to do I dont know why people find it so difficult to write...w...
Freewriting, 1
2008-01-22 20:36:00 Meaning develops over time, drafts, versions. There is no fixed meaning to a word, much less a passage, even after you work and work and work to make it seem like there is a fixed meaning. Fixing a meaning, in language, in prose, in singleton usage, etc., takes more than you, the author, ... |
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