Tag: relationships

• What do you mean?

  What do we mean by meaning? Whoaa. I love questions like that: an autological wrestling match, perhaps, and yet an important one, I think. Does everything have meaning, or does that happen only when there is an intention that it should? Meaning, after all, is not necessarily inherent in everything -a rock lying on the […]

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  December 29, 2021

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  archaeology, artifacts, communicative intention, history, HP Grice, information, intention, Marilynn Johnson, meaning, midden, natural meaning, non-natural meaning, philosophy of archaeology, philosophy of language, Psyche.co, relationships, stratigraphy, University of San Diego

• Here’s ado to lock up honesty

  Sometimes I think we want to simplify things too much; we crave bichromality: on or off, yes or no. We want certainty, not a spectrum. An answer, not another question -a decision, in other words. And yet if we stop to look around, it seems obvious that things are seldom black or white -there are […]

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  January 8, 2020

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  Aeon, Aeon.co, colours, communication, consent, ethical sex, felicity norms, Georgetown University, intent, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, meaning, negotiation, propriety norms, Rebecca Kukla, relationships, safe words, sexual dialogue, sexual language, sexuality, speech act theory, words

• Love, which alters when it alteration finds

  I’m not certain I understand why, but I am being led to believe that Love can be described mathematically using Bayesian Probability Theory… Okay, as a start, I have no idea what subscribing to Bayesian probability theory might entail, except maybe a club membership, and a considerably manipulated personal profile to attract some interest. But, […]

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  August 14, 2019

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  Aeon.co, Bayesian Probability Theory, Categorical Imperative, conditional love, credences, Immanuel Kant, love, metaphors, philosophy, rational, Regulative principle of worship, relationships, Shakespeare, Suki Finn, Thomas Bayes, unconditional love, University of Southampton, Wikipedia

• Life would not yield to Age

  There are times I think I’ve missed out on a lot. It seems to me that in my day, if a man re-chose a woman, he would almost always go for someone younger than himself. The reasons were obvious even then: overweening hubris, and expectations beyond capability. Indeed, dating sites online still seem to confirm […]

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  October 31, 2018

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  Age, benches, Deakin University, Gary Karantzas, large-age-gap relationships, marriages, relationships, The Conversation

• Trust

  Like time, trust is a difficult concept –easy enough to conceptualize, perhaps, but hard to define. To categorize. To understand. It is slippery, and slides through the fingers like water. As St. Thomas Aquinas said of time, you know what it is until someone asks you to be more specific. It is something, however, that […]

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  March 15, 2015

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  Confirmation bias, doctor rating systems, endometrial biopsy, fibroids, medicine, postmenopausal bleeding, relationships, sickness, St. Thomas Aquinas, Time, trust, ultrasound