[NetBehaviour] more boundary corrosion-dissolution
Alan Sondheim
sondheim at panix.com
Sat Feb 4 08:31:18 CET 2017
more boundary corrosion-dissolution
http://www.alansondheim.org/atl367.jpg
http://www.alansondheim.org/kyeezee.mp3 kyeezee
http://www.alansondheim.org/eg1.mp3 electric guitar
thanks to Mitchell Clark for the Kyeezee!
thanks to Luke Damrosch for the programs
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51. Application of the imperative. Compare these orders:
Raise your arm.
Imagine . . .
Work . . . out in your head
Consider . . .
Concentrate your attention on . . .
See this figure as a cube
with these:
Intend . . .
Mean . . . by these words
Suspect that this is the case
Believe that it is so
Be of the firm conviction . . .
Remember that this happened
Doubt whether it has happened
Hope for his return.
Is _this_ the difference, that the first are voluntary, the
second involuntary mental movements? I may rather say that
the verbs of the second group do not stand for actions.
(Compare with this the order: "Laugh heartily at this joke.)
"
- Wittgenstein, Zettel, trans. Anscombe
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