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Showing posts with label Language. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Language. Show all posts
Sunday, January 7, 2024

Hermeneutics and Anselm's Ontological Argument: Lessons for Lawyers and Others On Existential Proof

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When lawyers and others explore the limits of logical proof in proving matters of existence, it's quite useful to explore St. Anselm...
Sunday, January 19, 2020

How To Do Things With Signs: An Overview of Semiotics for Lawyers and Others

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Click HERE for a link to my current draft of "How To Do Things With Signs: Semiotics in Legal Theory, Practice, and Education." ...
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Monday, June 3, 2019

Voltaire and the Semiotics of Dress

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For those who doubt that there is a semiotics of dress, here is Voltaire wigged and wigless. Many thanks to the National Gallery of Art in W...
Saturday, May 19, 2018

Addition to Strings of Thought 5-19-2018

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Hermeneutics                                 To Gadamer Though eye must squint, eye must explore the bird Who plays at the horizo...
Wednesday, February 7, 2018

Addition to "Strings of Thought" (2/7/18)

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2/7/18 A legislative bill or other proposal isn’t simply a string of words on a page. Instead, a legislative bill or other proposal involve...
Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Addition to "Strings of Thought" (1/30/18)

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Legislative Intent 1/30/18  Legislative “intent” lies in legislatures’ speech acts and not legislators’ speech acts.  That is, legisl...
Sunday, January 21, 2018

Addition to "Strings of Thought" (1/21/18)

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Speaker Meaning 1/21/18 “Original” speaker meaning includes the unexplored.  Imagine I buy a netted device I categorize as “my hammock...
Saturday, September 9, 2017

Speaker Meaning and the Interpretation and Construction of Executive Orders

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Here is an abstract of my latest article posted on SSRN : ABSTRACT: This Article explores the interpretation and construction of execu...
Monday, July 10, 2017

President Trump & Word Association

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As a lover of words, I am of course interested in the following Quinnipiac poll which asked responders "What is the first word that co...
Saturday, April 29, 2017

"Nature Hath Framed Strange Fellows" William Shakespeare and Natural Law

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A. Introduction                            Natural law theorists might turn to The History of Troilus and Cressida to start ...
Sunday, March 5, 2017

Gorsuch and Originalism: Some Critiques from Logic, Scripture, and Art

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(This blog combines, expands, and end-notes two prior blogs)
Sunday, February 5, 2017

Ekphrasis & Prose: Sonnet Translations of Poe & Hawthorne

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I sometimes wonder whether a prose piece should have been verse from the outset.  Could the deep meaning have been more effectively capture...
Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Originalism and the Fall of Icarus

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Well, here we go again. With Neil Gorsuch as the current Supreme Court nominee, once more we hear praises of “originalism” as a judic...
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Monday, July 11, 2016

Wittgenstein's Sonnet: No Pictures See Themselves (Addition to "The Apology Box")

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     Wittgenstein’s Sonnet When I was young, words worked a different way. We hung them round like pictures on a wall To replica...
Thursday, June 30, 2016

Ishmael's Sonnet: Built As "Normal" Boys (Addition to "The Apology Box")

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            Ishmael’s Sonnet                          They called me Ishmael.   I was a first Who wrestled with the "bastard...
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Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Simon Magus: Beyond Your Heaven and Beyond Your Hell (Addition to "The Apology Box")

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        Simon Magus 's Case* Stand back, Jehovah!   I do not concede Your jurisdiction over me. Instead, I’ve secret knowledge sh...
Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Witch of Endor's Double Sonnets: I Accept No Words for Me Except My Own (Addition to "The Apology Box")

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    Witch Of Endor’s Double Sonnets                             I. I can't deny that I've known sorcery. Men's words ...
Monday, June 27, 2016

Ezekiel: The Universe Leaps Over Heart & Head (Addition to "The Apology Box")

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Ezekiel’s Double Sonnet                                                                             (A prophet of the exile)              ...
Sunday, June 19, 2016

Daniel: Nighttime Hieroglyphics in the Head (Addition to "The Apology Box")

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        Daniel’s Sonnet    (A Jew “exiled” in Babylon) Through deepest faith, I tapped night's lexicon That Nimrod changed. ...
Wednesday, June 15, 2016

How the "Ten" Commandments Refute Originalism & Fundamentalism (With Some Help From Herod, Caiaphas & Ahab's Additions to "The Apology Box")

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Conservatives often like to claim that texts speak for themselves.  A review of the Ten  Commandments is an easy way to see how such claim...