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Oroborous. This symbol has reached a near-universal familiarity representing cycle of life and infinite nature of the universe. Yet a serpent eating its own tail will eventually consume its own head and die. Finite! Not infinite. #Semantics and #Semiotics reveal human dissonance.
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I think that we are quick to infer and quick to respond to inferred meaning. We seem to first see only how a word affects our own lives. That to me seems an unwillingness to solve problems in part because change across society feels impossible. It isn't. It takes communication.
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Again I see that a suggestion for one approach means my suggestion was perceived as a singular solution? Clearly we are so concerned with our perception that we can't even consider multiple approaches? To assume I think only One Way wins? Thanks for the benevolent exclusion.
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Yes, which is why I suggest a community approach to naming conventions. Think of DTDs and Schema. People are peculiar in their own relationship with words so adding multiple points of view and revisiting them to create ontologies is a known method to clarify our communications.
The banning of any word is an extreme offense to me! Censorship is Oppression. I want my own words and all words to convey specific meaning, streamlining communication. Perhaps language evolution needs communities to work together, iteratively, like a W3C working group spec. 😊
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I strongly agree, and I also think imposition of thought, generalizations and constant misuse of language is passed off as unimportant when it is the underlying disorder. Disorder, because that's what our results of not paying attention to meaning ends up as when we abuse words.
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We have a right to self-identify. And, I see a new wave of PCism where individual thought and identity is being placed over other individuals and society at large. Individual expression is wonderful, imposition of one over many is a hallmark of fascism, despotism and megalomania.
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Yeah it was a thought provocation. I have died twice and it was nothingness. Like before I was born. Blank. No light, no dark. Nothing.
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If we don't think about these things how do we improve our naming of things? I'm a linguist, a semanticist a person involved in semiotic meaning everything is about meaning for me. Every time you disregard something I say you are disregarding me as a human and my disability.
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I am clinically obsessed with words, signs, symbols, numbers, colors and meaning. We all use & misuse our expression of any of these and it affects our relationship to. Do we want to oppress each other or create comfortable social norms? I don't think we have fully answered that.
People are not computers. Computers are not people. This absurd dialog is distraction from important issues in the world.
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Evidence that words we use then toss off as 'useless semantic arguments' are themselves a semantic argument. Don't folks get as tired as I do from our internal and social loops we rarely escape?🙄 #SocialJustice #Semantics #Language #HumanLoops #Thursday
nytimes.com/2021/04/13/techn…
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“What I don’t think they realize is that when they pray for a healing, death is a healing...It’s not the healing that you might want, but as sure as we’re born, we’re going to die. And we’re healed from the troubles of this world.”
- Sallie Tisdale
#Quotes #SaturdayThoughts❤️
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That's weird to me. WAIS was rising as the next big Internet protocol right at the Web's emerging edge. What a history we have lived!
Community building was so much easier on those platforms indeed! I meant "sociological" but your point stands strong.
Convergence was also a talked about factor for me, already online via BBSs and Internet protocols not Web yet. What about the social aspects? That was the "prophecy" part for me.
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Also, requires honesty, empiricism and critical analysis - all difficult enough to create a world where a majority of people live in bias and theories, outright mythologies - all embraced as *the* truth to extremes. This won't be solved in my lifetime, if ever. Come find me when!