LIT 315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mathematical Logic
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Naming, definition language as an aspect of action. It is, it is not thou shalt, thou shalt not. Symbolic logic used in plays, poems, prose, stories. Reflective of reality all language tries to move you in some way. Even if any given terminology is a reflection of reality, by its very nature as a terminology it must be a selection of reality; and to this extent it must function also as a deflection of reality. The terministic screens are photographs of the same object using different color filters. The war of northern aggression vs the american civil war. 2 kinds of terms/texts: those which stress continuity and those which stress discontinuity. Symbol systems are assumptions which our language and common sense understanding operate on. Criticizing categories: when we see categories we don"t recognize, such as the one in the last line: beauty=fish, it implies that the other categories are just as arbitrary.
