Employed skillfully, the metaphor is a powerful communication device. What better way to examine its effects than by visual metaphor? Suppose, modestly, that individual H is seeking to regale individual S with a captivatingly told account of an experience the former has had. Let the truth of the experience be a point centered within a…
Until a dispute is resolved in favor of one of the participating parties, it might be supposed that once each party has articulated its argument and, in so doing, established the merit of its position relative to the positions of the other participants–as judged by the notorious Impartial Third Party–the arrangement of participants in order…
During a recent visit to the vault* of unshared musings, I discovered the pen-sketched framework of what I expound on here. It is common, I’m sure, when examining for the first time in years an artifact of one’s own creation, to be cognizant of a mild and sustained excitement that results from experiencing the fragments…
Many behaviors which initially appear incongruent reveal themselves, on closer examination, not to be. Often, such discoveries are made possible by differentiating the circumstances surrounding the behaviors in question. For example, one may observe the unconcern with which people converse in crowded places and wonder at why a lone stranger approaching on a hiking trail…
Phrases of the sort “words fall short” and “it was indescribable” impute a fault to language that it has no responsibility to bear. Before going further, so as to establish a foundation on which to build, a premise all should find acceptable: the inability to convey an experience to another, to a degree that recreates…
Why is a grapefruit known as such, given how dissimilar it is to a grape? More importantly, why is the question framed so? It is only a small perturbation that ripples through the query’s character if the edible nouns swap places, yet the question as written is more likely to be asked than its variant….
Imagine this yellow circle is a young man named Jack. Jack is friends with a young blue circle man named Jim. Being friends, Jack and Jim regularly share in each other’s company and engage in behaviors typical of friendship, such as discussing matters of mutual interest, jointly participating in recreational activities, requesting assistance of one…
In spite of the facetiously cynical opinion, bolstered by empirical truth, that concludes last week’s post, I think most people would prefer to understand what it is they believe than to opt for the ignorant alternative. Besides the contentment afforded those who answer their internal inquiries, introspective individuals are also well-equipped to defend their beliefs…
It’s clear that the capacity of a guest speaker to influence their audience depends not singly on their message but also on their delivery. More opaque is the extent of what this could mean. Acknowledging the existence of a matter little understood–an important step, I’ll not deny–is far from offering understanding, yet the inanity of…
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