Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Jump the Gun, or stay under it

PHILOSOPHY
*Phislosohy is MENTAL
*Philosophy is the love or pursuit of wisdom, and is therefore fundamentally ETHICAL
-philosophy conserns itself with knowledge, process of knowlege, and the principals or rules which govern thoughts.

LEXICAL DEFINITION
*one found in a LEXICON (a "word-book",a dictionary-usually a "technical dictionary")
*based upon ACTUAL USE of terms defined.
*Lexical definitions, becasue they detail actual use, have often the vagueness and ambiguity characteristic of everyday speech.

VAGUENESS
*"looseness" of the boundaries of a meaning of a term

AMBIGUITY
*Use of a term in several different senses (which is meant, being unclear).

STIPULATIVE DEFINITION
*A proposal of a narrowing of an existing lexical definition to remove ambiguity or vagueness of both.

HYPOTHETICAL/THEORITICAL DEFINITION
*Defintions created for a sepecific pouropse, having some sort of usefulness in a process of examination.
*not taken to be absolute or trivial, these definitions exist to be TESTED.

(these following thoughts are hypotetical, not to be taken as absolute)

WISDOM
*The knowledge of what to do and when
*(the right thing/what is right to do/what is morally correct?)

COSMOLOGY
*the study of order in the universe
*(the impact of life/actions/events on the universe)

GEORGE ORWELL (writing is a political act, it altars the world reguardless of if anyone sees it or not) <--kinda like my idea.

2 comments:

M E Achtermann said...

I appreciate having these notes -- they may be almost believe my presentations are cogent. MA

M E Achtermann said...

Corrigendum: for "may be" read "make me". MA