'Chess Game' Perspective of Language

A CHESS GAME PERSPECTIVE OF LANGUAGE

Language is a system of codes and the rules governing these codes. It is a fundamental system used in everyday life for communication, understanding and building relationships. Wittgenstein has advanced certain ideas about the nature of language and I feel that some of these postulates can actually be configured into a teleological or ‘goal-oriented’ understanding of human communication behavior. We can view the practice of language as a chess game that we use to achieve certain desired ends.

Political Engagement

The Need is clear for all who see
Speak up now or forever hold your peace:

Poems First They Came (Martin Niemoller) and The Hangman (Maurice Ogden)

Psychological Epistemology

PSYCHOLOGICAL EPISTEMOLOGY

In the early years of the 20th century, much thought has been devoted to social epistemology and what it means to call something a 'science'. Kuhn has noted that it follows certain distinct phases until a 'crisis point' has been reached and the scientific community comes to a 'paradigm shift' where a new theory that best accounts for phenomena comes to be accepted as truth. Foucault, too, has documented how knowledge in the human sciences can be mere expressions of social norms, such as the definition of insanity, which is nothing more than a measure of conformity. However, I believe that the individual aspect of knowledge deserves more attention for it is, ultimately, collective individual decisions that shape disciplines and psychological epistemology thus deserves equal attention.

Another One ([y]our servile Obedience)

[Robinson road, from a skyscraper]

Hiatus

I work while the sun shines, I cycle when the night falls.

A hiatus for now. Till then, I will be

Incommunicado

A Thousand Words

Taken sometime this week at the lift lobby of UOB Tower 1

Home, Finally - by Rebecca Wang Chenying

Can You Read My Mind? - Dina Rozana Bte Abdul Razak

Ruminations on Aesthetics

[An old post after a tutorial]

Today's KI lesson reminded me of why I would not, under the most dire circumstances, attempt to write an essay on aesthetics. This blog entry will also serve to consolidate the issues we talked about.