2006:02:06
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I had something of an epiphany this weekend, a bit of legal theory I've been pondering finally fell neatly apart at the hands of my Prisoners Dilemma write up. I won't go into details here, as I am trying, by and large, to separate the legal/political work from the semantics per se work.
But what a strange distinction to make in the first place. I suppose that's why I need the Oblio's Cap site, because there is a strong argument that the separation of topics is a diminishing of those topics. How can semantics be separate from politics? How can politics be separate from art? Well, that's the reasoning, but better pursued there than here. Here I accept the value of separating topics, and do my best to keep politics and semantics per se sorted. It's a semantic punctuation I provisionally accept.
That aim of separation notwithstanding, today I report on an application of Semantic Restructuring to legal theory: The theories of Nobel winner Ronald Coase, particularly as manifest in his paper, "The Problem of Social Cost," fall apart on an error of logical typing I have labeled "False Quantification."
I am not convinced, however, that my label is worth promulgating. Nor am I convinced that it does me any good to make such claims when the glossary section of this site is in such poor shape.
So, I propose to endeavor to focus on the glossary. To that end, I would be grateful for comments as to which entries need to be added first. Tomorrow, or later today even, I expect to begin with "Error of Logical Typing."
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2006:02:03
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We Are All Danes NowHere is the original online; here a locked down copy at wikipedia.
Bandler and Grinder speculate (potificate) on the psychological effects of repressing a sensory system. One can only see the psychopathic behavior of some Muslims as support for this premise. But the follow-up, in Bandler and Grinder methods, is that adding back in the missing sensory system is a valuable therapeutic aid. Clearly this maneuver can be met with abreaction.
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2006:01:30
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I am a bit self-conscious today. I feel a bit silly about maintaining three sites for zero readers. If it wasn't for google and other web-spiders I'd have no readers at all, or so it too often feels.
Part of the problem has to do with the style of writing. "Blogging" in particular and web writing in general seem to presuppose immediacy and freshness. What I'm doing instead is really much more like personal journalling, and yet putting it where it is visible, even if largely unviewed, makes for differences in what I actually say. So too for the artificial split between ISR and Oblio's Cap. In absence of readers why bother separating them? Because they are separate ways of thinking about my world, and I am better for playing with the distinction.
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2006:01:08
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Meaning follows context. Your body is context. So are your representations of your body. And where there is a mismatch between your representations of your body and the reality of your body you will suffer similar mismatch in the expected effects of your communications and the actual effects. This is the basis for self-image based therapies.
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