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Author: TruthSlaveTruthSlave Date: Apr 9, 2008 01:42
A word on Difference.
Where were we once had a zillion ways to describe difference
we now seem to converge on the one word...
The eccentric, the unusual, the strange, bizarre, the queer,
the odd, the differently abled, the old, all now seem to
have only one way to describe them.
The word, used to dismiss conscience, or any need of the
question. The word, to excuse our indifference, to see but
not hear the other person, to believe but not know what is
meant when they hint at their experiences. Some experience
we would rather not know, some experience we would rather
remain hidden.
Our expectations created by this tidy summary now dominate
thought, a subtle command on either side of its use. The
word used to satisfy so many converging functions.
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Author: curmudgeoncurmudgeon Date: Apr 9, 2008 10:12
At one time in Americas past the word *PECULIAR* meant exactly the same as
the word *UNIQUE* does today.
Believe it or not, but that was only 100 years ago, give or take a decade or
two.
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Author: TruthSlaveTruthSlave Date: Apr 9, 2008 13:06
curmudgeon wrote:
> At one time in Americas past the word *PECULIAR* meant exactly the same as
> the word *UNIQUE* does today.
> Believe it or not, but that was only 100 years ago, give or take a decade or
> two.
>
That change of 'Peculiar', from 'unique' to its current meaning
seems to betray a trend of thought. The near industrialization
of thought. Man as the uniformly produced product, or the sought
type. Its as if to declare all the marginals and misfits, even
the unique, to be of one mind, of a kind, lumped together to be
dismissed with the word as having no value. There being no place
in the popular perception beyond the commonly served functions.
The word and thus the type, has to have a function it fits, or
else there is no word except these simple container to fit,
containers into which one dismiss the apparently functionless.
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Author: MichaelNJMichaelNJ Date: Apr 9, 2008 13:15
On Apr 9, 4:42 am, TruthSlave home.com> wrote:> A word on Difference.
>
> Where were we once had a zillion ways to describe difference
> we now seem to converge on the one word...
>
> The eccentric, the unusual, the strange, bizarre, the queer,
> the odd, the differently abled, the old, all now seem to
> have only one way to describe them.
>
> The word, used to dismiss conscience, or any need of the
> question. The word, to excuse our indifference, to see but
> not hear the other person, to believe but not know what is
> meant when they hint at their experiences. Some experience
> we would rather not know, some experience we would rather
> remain hidden.
>
> Our expectations created by this tidy summary now dominate
> thought, a subtle command on either side of its use. The
> word used to satisfy so many converging functions. ...
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Author: Angus RodgersAngus Rodgers Date: Apr 9, 2008 14:55
On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:06:47 +0100, TruthSlave
home.com> wrote:
>curmudgeon wrote:
>> At one time in Americas past the word *PECULIAR* meant exactly the same as
>> the word *UNIQUE* does today.
>> Believe it or not, but that was only 100 years ago, give or take a decade or
>> two.
>>
>
>That change of 'Peculiar', from 'unique' to its current meaning
>seems to betray a trend of thought. The near industrialization
>of thought. Man as the uniformly produced product, or the sought
>type. Its as if to declare all the marginals and misfits, even
>the unique, to be of one mind, of a kind, lumped together to be
>dismissed with the word as having no value. There being no place
>in the popular perception beyond the commonly served functions.
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Author: TruthSlaveTruthSlave Date: Apr 9, 2008 18:32
> On Apr 9, 4:42 am, TruthSlave home.com> wrote:
> >>A word on Difference.
>>
>>Where were we once had a zillion ways to describe difference
>>we now seem to converge on the one word...
>>
>>The eccentric, the unusual, the strange, bizarre, the queer,
>>the odd, the differently abled, the old, all now seem to
>>have only one way to describe them.
>>
>>The word, used to dismiss conscience, or any need of the
>>question. The word, to excuse our indifference, to see but
>>not hear the other person, to believe but not know what is
>>meant when they hint at their experiences. Some experience
>>we would rather not know, some experience we would rather
>>remain hidden.
>>
>>Our expectations created by this tidy summary now dominate ...
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Author: TruthSlaveTruthSlave Date: Apr 9, 2008 19:50
Angus Rodgers wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:06:47 +0100, TruthSlave
> home.com> wrote:
>
> >>curmudgeon wrote:
>>
>>>At one time in Americas past the word *PECULIAR* meant exactly the same as
>>>the word *UNIQUE*...
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Author: TruthSlaveTruthSlave Date: Apr 13, 2008 13:49
TruthSlave wrote:
>> On Apr 9, 4:42 am, TruthSlave home.com> wrote:
>>>>> A word on Difference.
>>>
>>> Where were we once had a zillion ways to describe difference
>>> we now seem to converge on the one word...
>>>
>>> The eccentric, the unusual, the strange, bizarre, the queer,
>>> the odd, the differently abled, the old, all now seem to
>>> have only one way to describe them.
>>>
>>> The word, used to dismiss conscience, or any need of the
>>> question. The word, to excuse our indifference, to see but
>>> not hear the other person, to believe but not know what is
>>> meant when they hint at their experiences. Some experience
>>> we would rather not know, some experience we would rather
>>> remain hidden. ...
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Author: curmudgeoncurmudgeon Date: Apr 13, 2008 22:10
"Naming is something like attaching a label to a thing."
"The meaning of a word is its use in language."
*Ludwig Wittgenstein* (1889-1951)
Many people believe that Ludwig Wittgenstein was the 20th century's most
important philosopher.
It is somewhat ironic perhaps, that he may be better known for waving a
poker at another philosopher Karl Popper.
Philosophical Investigations (1953)
Perhaps the most important work of Ludwig Wittgenstein's later period, it
represents a systematic expression of the idea which he came to hold about
language and meaning.
It includes an analysis of concepts such as 'language game' and 'forms of
life', and pursues the idea that words gain their meaning from the rules
which govern their usage.
"There are no enemies in science just anomalies"
*CUR*
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