Website review: Robert Anton Wilson - Toward Unders...
KingBoy discovered this in Linguistics
•5 reviews since Nov 29, 2005
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KingBoy discovered 6 months ago- Robert Anton Wilson on E-Prime. Not to be confused with prescriptivism, E-Prime does away with the "is of identity" and thus encourages a mindset less rooted in subject-object structures, which can be misleading and ambivalent.
- meatbot rated 6 months ago
- When you read this article you may come to a realization that parts of your linguistic representations are in fact, over- or under-generalizing your experiences. The language structures of e-prime allow for communicating more of your evaluation and sensory interactions with any given situation or idea.
- kevinjjones rated 6 months ago
- I classify this site as a hilarious but cheap way of rewriting language to evade the challenge of dealing with non-empiricist philosophical interpretations.
From the page: "The "A"-type statements (Standard English) all implicitly or explicitly assume the medieval view called "Aristotelian essentialism" or "naive realism." In other words, they assume a world made up of block-like entities with indwelling "essences" or spooks- "ghosts in the machine." "
No, "naive realism" refers to a system that was actually acknowledged as debunked in the early middle ages. Its fallacy went:
Socrates is a man.
Plato is a man.
Therefore Plato is Socrates.
"Moderate realism" is the proper name for the glorious metaphysics of the medieval greats. Oops, I used "is." Oh, no, I used "is" again! I am evil. Ahh, another "is" usage in the first person singular!
The problem of essences deals with questions of wholeness and integrity. It's far too interesting to simply dismiss with linguistic hand-waving. For more on moderate realism, check out http://www.radicalacademy.com/philaquinasmdw6.htm for an okay pop-intro - I classify this site as a hilarious but cheap way of rewriting language to evade the challenge of dealing with non-empiricist philosophical interpretations.
