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Monthly Archives: October 2007
Convention over logic: Limits of implicature
Evening News 24 – Refuse fire near City Hall Arsonists sparked an emergency response after setting light to a rubbish container near City Hall on Saturday evening. The suspects started the fire shortly after 7pm on St Giles Street. Two … Continue reading
Posted in Analogies, Cognition, Discourse - text, Linguistics, News and media
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Indeterminacy in art criticism as frame negotiation
On The Media: Transcript of "Not So Innocent" (October 5, 2007) RICHARD HALPERN: Right. There’s often a kind of loss of innocence that takes place in the paintings themselves, which reflect on a potential loss of innocence on the part … Continue reading
Posted in Analogies, Framing, Literature and narrative
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Utility of prejudice: Reducing freedom to cognition and vice versa
Quote Details: William Hazlitt: Without the aid of… – The Quotations Page Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room. William Hazlitt English essayist (1778 – 1830) It’s always disconcerting … Continue reading
Posted in Cognition, Framing, Philosophy
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