currently reading: ‘Wandering Significance: An Essay on Conceptual Behavior’ by Mark Wilson
Written on July 3, 2007
“The main consideration that drives the entire argument of the book is the thesis that the often quirky behaviors of ordinary descriptive predicates derive, not merely from controllable human inattention or carelessness, but from a basic unwillingness of the physical universe to sit still while we frame its descriptive picture. Like a photographer dealing with a rambunctious child, we must resort to odd and roundabout strategies if we hope to capture even a glimpse of our flighty universe upon our linguistic film.” (p. 11)
Filed in: cognitive science,mind.
