[FRIAM] looking for a word

[Marcus Daniels]

Perhaps Texas<https://www.thenation.com/article/when-will-the-lone-start-state-turn-blue/> is key to putting a stop to all this?



On 8/17/18, 4:52 PM, "Friam on behalf of Barry MacKichan" <friam-bounces at redfish.com on behalf of barry.mackichan at mackichan.com> wrote:



    Clusterf**k ?



    Oops, sorry, I was thinking of Trump. Also it’s after 5 on a Friday

    here on the east coast.



    --Barry





    On 17 Aug 2018, at 18:42, uǝlƃ ☣ wrote:



    > Bah!  If you are, as I am, a post-modernist, explanatory power reduces

    > to evocative power.  Whatever I can do to evoke a predictable response

    > in the audience is adequate.  Although I count myself a fan of

    > Wittgenstein's STFU approach, I can't deny the power of those who just

    > never STFU. (Witness the interminable chants at the various pro-this,

    > anti-that rallies.)  It's a kind of hypnosis ... a droning on and on

    > until you win over your audience with tone and rhythm more so than

    > content.

    >

    > But w.r.t. Zweigneiderlassung, I'm currently enthralled with McShea

    > and Brandon's concept of the ZFEL and "pure complexity", which (in my

    > ignorance) disallows reliance on "branching" as a core concept.

    > Simple counting seems more appropriate, especially since that makes

    > sense to most people.  I admit that McShea and Brandon seem to be

    > relying fundamentally on some implicit spatial sense.  But perhaps

    > that's OK in this context?

    >

    > On 08/17/2018 03:21 PM, Robert Holmes wrote:

    >> I always call it the Zweigneiderlassung.

    >>

    >> On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 4:14 PM Frank Wimberly <wimberly3 at gmail.com>

    >> wrote:

    >>

    >>> The explanatory power of all words is limited.  See Wittgenstein.

    >>> Wovon

    >>> Mann nicht sprechen kann daruber muss Mann schweigen.

    >

    > --

    > ☣ uǝlƃ

    >

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