Thursday, January 27, 2011

The Slippery Slope of Solipsism - A Soliloquy

The thing about knowledge is that what you know, you know you know; you know how much you know about what you know; you know what part of it you don't know enough about to say that you know it all.

The thing about ignorance is that what you don't know, you don't know you don't know; you don't know what it is you don't know and have no idea what might exist that you don't even know of, much less know something about.

For the most part, we with conviction live a life of ignorance mistaking it to be one of knowledge. That fact is brought home to us every time we're confronted with evidence of our ignorance, and our ignorance about our ignorance. And then we're not sure we really know all that we thought we knew. All we can then be sure of is that there exists befuddlement.

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Sunday, January 23, 2011

Minor Observation #5

A particle is a particularly tiny part of an article.

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Saturday, January 15, 2011

Preposterous Prepositions (and Other Parts of Speech)

It jars when they say
  • speak with (person) instead of speak to (person)
  • speak to (topic) instead of speak about (topic)
  • different than (something else) instead of different from (something else)
  • based out of (place) instead of based in (place)
  • bounce off of (thing/ person) instead of bounce off (thing/ person)
  • an historic (occasion) instead of a historic (occasion)
  • ...
but when you get a quizzical look or a "say wha...?" then you know you have to err on the side of effective communication.

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