Analyzing the Duality of Cynicism: Positive and Negative Manifestations in Thought and Practice Positive/Valuable Forms of Cynicism: Vocabulary: Definition: Positive forms of cynicism involve a…
August 22, 2023
That criticism was how I balanced myself against the path I did not take … a statement which came back to bite me on the…
August 20, 2023
Freedom is the feeling that one no longer bears a responsibility for at least trying to manage consequences. * Art is what survives acknowledgement of…
August 19, 2023
Genius shovels loads of pleasure into the furnace, to the maximum, so that discipline’s hard labor cannot feel itself to be so deserving that it…
August 16, 2023: Triangulating Self: Cesarean, Epictetus, and the Higher Self:
Triangulating Self: Cesarean, Epictetus, and the Higher Self: The Caesarean goal or means is never to take on risks; it is to remove them. The…
August 15, 2023: La Rochefoucauld On Hunting, and then Going Home
Purity is for collectors. The pure are for hunters and farmers. X is for Y. And good breeding is for …, well, for “X is…
Metaphor in Cognition
Drawing inspiration from kennings, one can delve into the broader role of metaphor in cognition. George Lakoff and Mark Johnson‘s “Metaphors We Live By” is…
Semiotics and the Art of Kennings: From Saussure to Poststructuralism
Kennings, with their poetic and condensed metaphors, have long been recognized in literature and linguistics as a unique form of signification. But when analyzed through…
“Obviousness” vs. “Evident”: Unraveling Nuances in Perception
CognoVortex: “Obviousness” is an awkward term. What is a word that is closer to its root, i.e., requires no suffix. ChatGPT: The word “evident” might…
August 12, 2023
Abstract thinking is what we do about the gaps in language that we happen to come upon. Sometimes the gap is simply how we get…