etymology ⁽⁴⁾

Original posted in May 2023 on substack.com. The Go-Between (1971 film) Lexigraphically, in traditional English habit, when one worries about the meaning of words one takes a descriptive rather than prescriptive attitude, that one ought not should words. Thus large and important English dictionaries hoard examples of the use of a word or term. It’s a point of pride for…

First posted on substack in May 2023. I was ruminating about writing a post on throwing belief/s into the… —gap, and while readingWhy We Believe by Agustín Fuentes… —on the facebook group Pyrrhonism, a post came up on the book In Praise of Doubt by Peter Berger and Anton C. Zijderveld. For a moment I confused it with a title…

Things that annnoy (deprecate 'objects')

These thoughts follow from reading Caleb Everett’s 2017 book Numbers and the making of us : counting and the course of human cultures. It argues our ability to use numbers, however useful, is a happenstance affair. A use that composes our body’s limbs & digits with some need in environments varied and varying. Counting does not depend on any innate…