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the romans really went off with the word caedes
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Death of the author: Treating the author’s stated interpretation of their own work as merely one opinion among many, rather than the authoritative Word of God.
Disappearance of the author: Treating the context and circumstances of the work’s authorship as entirely irrelevant with respect to its interpretation, as though the work had popped into existence fully formed just moments ago.
Taxidermy of the author: Working backwards from a particular interpretation of the work to draw conclusions about what the context and circumstances of its authorship must have been.
Undeath of the author: Holding the author personally responsible for every possible reading of their work, even ones they could not reasonably have anticipated at the time of its authorship.
Frankenstein’s Monster of the author: Drawing conclusions about authorial intent based on elements that are present only in subsequent adaptations by other authors.
Weekend at Bernie’s of the author: Insisting that the author would personally endorse your interpretation of the work if they happened to be present.
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lipsticklesbia · 4 months
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the vocabulary of loss is the dictionary
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lipsticklesbia · 5 months
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An interesting-looking film that’s getting a lot of good buzz right now. Anyone heard anything about it? Recommend/not recommend?
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lipsticklesbia · 5 months
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2016 looks aka fav traditional rroma pics i’ve found
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what's your user mean
Does it have to do with diaphoretic
Diaphorotes is an ancient Greek word used by Plato in the explanation of his theory of Forms.
Short but kind of wrong answer: it means "difference"
Long answer (tw: Plato tw: metaphysic):
(Disclaimer: This is a summary and sometimes concepts can be so summarized that they are wrong. Also, I have never studied philosophy in English so I might use some terms the wrong way.)
One of the things that Plato wanted to understand was how the human mind classifies objects:
For example: how is it possible that we can understand that two different looking dogs are part of the same category called "dog"?
Let's think about the definition of a dog: an animal with four legs, fur, a tail, two ears...
But two dogs can have two different colours of fur, a longer or shorter tail, or one of the dogs can be missing a leg.
Yet our mind will immediately tell us “oh look at these two dogs!”.
Let's think back to the definition of dog that I wrote earlier; we could also apply that definition to a cat. After all, a cat also has: four legs, hair, a tail, two ears, etc.
Yet our mind is capable of understanding instantly which of the two animals we have in front of us.
Although the same type of object can present itself in different ways (different color, shape, size, etc.), our mind will place it in the right category even though we have never seen - and learned- that particular shape of the object before .
To explain this, Plato created the theory of Forms (or theory of Ideas).
According to Plato there is a place called the world of Forms (Hyperuranion) in which all the perfect models (Form) of every object reside.
This place is beyond our world and everything that exists here is just a poor copy of the perfect Form that exists there.
So despite the fact that a dog can present itself in different ways, our mind can categorise the object perfectly because we can obtain the knowledge of its perfect Form from the Hyperuranion.
Lastly, how can we distinguish a cat from a dog according to this theory? An object similar to another? Every object has a peculiarity that makes it unique, a particular sign that differentiates it from all other things and defines it.
That unique difference is called diaphorotes.
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lipsticklesbia · 5 months
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this week in I Am Very Smart: having enough money to go to the opera, museums and concerts correlates with having enough money for food, shelter and basic health needs
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thoughts on the lsat getting rid of logic games?
How - how very dare.
I mean, actually, my objection is not to getting rid of logic games as they currently exist. It's true that logic games are the most difficult to make accessible because every tutor/book/etc. that I've ever heard of tells you that the way to solve logic games is by drawing diagrams. However, it's worth noting that logic games absolutely do not require you to diagram anything.
And I think it's kinda tragic that the legal profession apparently doesn't see that logic can and should be applied without diagrams - and also without narrative texts.
Here's the key: logic games consist of logical rules in a vacuum. Rather than giving you a paragraph or an entire essay to read, logic games simply give you a set of if-then rules. The test-taker must then see which of those if-then rules do (or don't) apply to different sets of facts.
And that is something most lawyers (heck, most people!) already seriously struggle with.
Here's the thing. If you keep reading comp and add a second logical reasoning section, the LSAT is basically just a glorified SAT/ACT. That doesn't help much, because, unfortunately, most lawyers do actually know how to evaluate and interpret a paragraph or an essay (which is what the reading comp and logical reasoning sections test).
What they don't necessarily understand is how to evaluate logical statements in a vacuum, without the guidance of a broader narrative flow, and then see if/how those logical statements apply to a given set of facts.
And that is exactly what logic games test.
In my opinion, removing logic games (and not replacing them with something analogous) results in more and more lawyers who can understand one individual case just fine, but don't understand how to extract logical principles from Set Of Facts A and see how the same principles do (or don't!) apply to Set Of Facts B.
And that is what's key to being a lawyer. Not being able to analyze a specific text, but being able to extract principles (aka logical rules) from a set of facts and then see if a different set of facts triggers the application of the same principles.
So, uh...yeah, I'm not thrilled. Logic games should be replaced with something that tests the same skills of principle-extraction and principle-application.
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lipsticklesbia · 5 months
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eagle: so what do you think about stigmata
prometheus: you know we're in a pre-christian myth, right? like that word doesn't exist yet. your dumb joke is anachronistic.
eagle: stigma talons in your flesh
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lipsticklesbia · 5 months
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cast your votes!!
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lipsticklesbia · 5 months
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use, and i cannot stress this enough, thriftbooks
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lipsticklesbia · 5 months
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to me odysseus not recognizing ithaca is genuinely heartbreaking. the phaeacians must have broken their promise, because it can't be ithaca, because he doesn't recognize it. in his truest soul he believes that if he came home, he would know. but he can't be allowed to know it, because you can never go home. even when you are home.
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lipsticklesbia · 6 months
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Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library, Toronto, 1973-77.
Architect: Raymond Moriyama
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lipsticklesbia · 6 months
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i want to touch ancient ruins somewhere like syria so bad. like there's this region where the whole late roman villages just stand in the desert. i want to touch them
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