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I am not sure I am entirely at ease with having the blog be the home page. This space has yet to coalesce into whatever it is becoming, and I am overwhelmed by the number of partial projects it represents.
Am skimming through an interesting collection of essays relating legal interpretation to literary interpretation. It's a 1988 copyright, so much of the material is hopelessly dated, but still there are themes that ring true despite the lack of topicality of the examples. Later I suspect I'll look for more current incarnations of these thoughts.
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Goodnight, John-boy. I've done all the damage I can think to do for the night. I hope this makes more sense for folks; hope it's easier to navigate, to generally "get one's head around" the subject matter. It's been a nice reminder for me just how much I've got in progress, waiting, and in so many different levels of completion, which is nice, as sometimes one wants to get lost for hours, other times one wants more instant gratification of the closure appetite. So, this has been a good session for me today; I hope it's been of value to you too.
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It has come to my attention that perhaps this site could be a little more user friendly. Okay, we're working on it. Starting pretty much now the blog will be the splash page for the domain, and I'll probably run as much of the content as possible through the blosxom cgi. However, for starters I'll probably just put the blog up front and leave the rest intact, such that http://www.semanticrestructuring.com works but http://www.semanticrestructuring.com/abstracts.php will getcha back to the older versions until the change over is complete. Also, of course, I'm trying to make sure I don't create linkrot for the three people who have actually linked to portions of this site; all existing inbound links should still work just fine.
In particular, btw, I've been told that folks just don't get what the site is about, and I'm hoping to change that. It's about Semantic Restructuring, but that's not a very nutritious answer. The best I've come up with so far is still Brief Therapy with Achilles. Hope that helps.
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Ignore this post. Unless you think it is self-defeating to say so.
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We invent these entities, then forget we invent them. We fail to defer suspension of disbelief. Language. Mind. Self. Good, useful terms, up to the limits of their usefulness, but don't mistake them for anything real. Defer.
And maybe not really apropos of the above, but today I am again amused at the attempts to deny having metaphysical assumptions by statements such as Whereof one cannot speak..., which some have taken as "Metaphysicians, shut up."
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In what discipline do adherents say:
There is no such thing as grammar, it's an intangible entity, and we might do well to identify the set of tangible, experiential and conceptual entities that are conflated to arrive at "grammar."
Probably none. But that is a question I would ask. I understand it's not a question likely to be asked in any discipline that water-skis in the wake of Chomsky, but it's a question I'd like to see asked in a meaningful way. Hell, just the "what do we conflate to create grammar?" would be a good one to work on. One thing that really strikes me is the notion of grammar seems to flow from hierarchicalized social structures in which an authority can dictate what is and isn't "proper" communication. Grammar seems, to my eye, inextricably linked with prescription, proscription, social order, force, inequity. It's enough to make a flower girl say, "Garn."
Think for a bit about Chomsky's stated goal, rules for generating all and only the grammatical sentences of a language. Now think about the overwhelming percentage of language (not to mention the rest of communication and interaction) that is fully acceptable, effective, and ungrammatical. It's a cousin of Aristotle's error of excluding the middle. Sure, we can do some neat tricks by excluding the middle, but that doesn't make the method empirically valid; life is lived pretty exclusively in that excluded middle, made up not only of greys but the infitite blend of colors. Likewise Chomsky's "Language = Set of Grammatical Sentences." Neat, useful, but in no way the whole shebang, quite limited in scope, and, seemingly, an unacknowledged byproduct of prescription, proscription, social order, force, inequity.
Now, maybe it's just that within a discipline, like linguistics, the folks accept these lacunae, either because the resulting efforts seem still to have merit and bear worthwhile fruits, or simply because that's the price of discipleship. And maybe that's why I've never been able to find a discpipline, because I can't accept these huge gaping holes and I'm not presonally tied to any group enough to accept their orthodoxies just for membership.
Thanks, by the way, to Eve Sweetser, on cogling, for introducing me to "conflation" in this context. I haven't yet tracked down the source article she cited, and so am probably using the term differently than the literature. But in the meantime it works wonders for me as a means of thinking about nominalization, in the N-LP sense of the word (in Semantic Restructuring we call them "intangibles.")
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