Rare things are typically more valuable than common ones. Communications included.
Tag: communication
Why Are People So Easily Deceived?
After watching another week of election-year shenanigans, my teen-aged daughter asked me a pretty adult question: “why are so many people so easily deceived? She was thinking of a particular set of people on one side of the political spectrum, but I thought bigger. The hard truth, after all, is that we’re all susceptible to …
You Can’t Handle the Truth. (Really, You Can’t.)
Since graduate school at least, I've believed (and occasionally argued) that truth is best thought of as a property of reflections on or about the world--a characteristic of statements, arguments, or even works of art. This is hardly an original claim: Ludwig Wittgenstein, W.V.O. Quine, and many others have made more eloquent arguments for this …
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Human Communication Always Happens in the Flesh
Putting a message on a page somewhere doesn't count as communication. It only counts as communication if your message becomes incarnate in somebody.
