E-Prime and the Childhood Experience
Obi Have/Haveobi/Reggie has previously introduced and discussed the subject of the E-prime method of expression [see earlier threads if you missed it]. I'm not very well versed on the subject, but as...
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Is it possible to accurately translate the Tao Te Ching into e-prime?
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I am sorry, Sab. I was wrong. I had posted on the run a thought that had been in the back of my head in the context of this thread without really looking at the responses since early yesterday, and I...
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Here's the real deal with the sky: The Earth's atmosphere has a composition mostly of nitrogen. When light waves/particles/quanta/whatever pass through a primarily nitrogen medium, they oscillate at a...
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But plenty of things are not "data", Eccy! A lot of things are opinions. And stating in a sentence that it is opinion, and not data, is always useful.What about a child with a creative and linguistic...
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This is "tomorrow". In full work mode I missed the last bus twice now, and just finished taking spontaneous (and somewhat necessary) advantage of the futon in my office. Curious metaphors arising. The...
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Quote: I think that language has a single job. To communicate data as accurately as possible.That's definitely one job of language. But, to-be prime actually gets in the way of communicating data. One...
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Echthelion, another point regarding the "accuracy" of to be prime v. eprime. In actuality, to-be prime statements tend to be much more inaccurate and vague. Like "I am clumsy." What is more accurate...
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Just to clarify, I'm not making a totalizing judgment about the inherent problem with making inferences. Rather, the semantic point is that problems arise when we confuse inferences/judgments for...
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Kyle, your post is a very difficult one to answer.1/ I don't envy your childhood. I won't trade, even with my "you're clumsy!" experience. I guess I do understand you more, though, even if it makes me...
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Quote: It is a curious thing: that my not accepting a theory would somehow seem to undermine the validity of that theory for others. But Kyle, that's how most people operate. They believe what they're...
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Full response just awaiting one more item, but in the meantime this ran earlier this week, and it so belonged:
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"There is, of course, the danger that a person will continue to operate on a purely emotional basis, and decide that the option which is most emotionally satisfying is true rather than the option...
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If I get what e-prime's about then e-prime's what both of them are talking except maybe for the very first thing and the very end thing."I must be doing this wrong.""They made this wrong."So i guess...
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up.I don't know whether the subject of e-prime has been temporarily exhausted [it has been discussed extensively on other threads], or we've all been too busy/distracted to post much, or maybe the...
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Ecthelion said -pub29.ezboard.com/fthevir...=156.topicNo, I don't see any relation between the Cathy cartoon and what is happening here. I continue to see that as a "gender" thing because women are...
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Quote:Perhaps e-prime versions of existing statements are in fact attempts to answer the questions implicit in the original statements -- but they do not pose as attempts! Rather, e-prime reworded...
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Quote:The concept behind e-prime seems to reject overt descriptive objectification by covertly objectifying the idea of perception, self- and otherwise. In effect, everything is reduced to...
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Quote:Thus e-prime seems to me to be an extremely dangerous tool.again, more abstract nonsense. Dangerous in what sense, in what way? Gee, 7th grade english teachers tell us all the time to eliminate...
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Charnale, I understand the general concept of e-prime but am not good at putting it into practice. Could you rephrase one or more of Kyle's statements in e-prime? Since you say those statements could...
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