Are Hard To See From Inside

Become Infrastructure

Become Invisible

Become More Interesting The Longer You Look

Become More Real Through Repetition

Become More Real With Age

Become More Valuable Together

Become More Valuable When Common

Become Part Of The Background

Become Real Only When Shared

Become Real Through Repetition

Become Stronger When Shared

Become Themselves Through Use

Carry Civilization

Create Attachment

Create Belonging

Create Common Ground

Create Context

Create Continuation

Create Continuity

Create Depth Over Time

Create Dispersion

Create Freedom

Create Identity

Create Leverage

Create Momentum Across Generations

Create Optionality

Depend On Cooperation

Endure

Escape

Extend Reach

Have Long Memories

Ignore Boundaries

Improve By Being Passed Along

Improve By Being Slightly Broken

Improve Through Repetition

Lend

Make Cooperation Possible

Make Coordination Possible

Make Distance Manageable

Make Knowledge Durable

Make Other Things Possible

Make The World Feel Larger

Make The World Feel Smaller

Mature

Need Cultivation

Need Protection

Occupy The Same Space Differently

Only Exist Because People Cooperate

Organize Cooperation

Outlive Intentions

Outlive Ownership

Outlive Their Creator

Persist Through Change

Quietly Connect Eras

Quietly Connect Strangers

Quietly Demand Loyalty

Quietly Expand

Quietly Hold Civilization Together

Quietly Hold The Future

Quietly Multiply

Quietly Run The World

Quietly Shape Everyday Life

Quietly Shape Everything

Quietly Shape History

Quietly Shape Identity

Reduce Asymmetry

Reduce Friction

Refuse To Stay Finished

Remember Pressure

Remember Shape

Repay Attention

Resist Completion

Reward Circulation

Reward Commitment

Reward Conservation

Reward Continuity

Reward Curiosity

Reward Depth

Reward Familiarity

Reward Participation

Reward Patience

Reward Preservation

Reward Renewal

Reward Repetition

Reward Stewardship Across Time

Survive Their Container

Transfer Information

Transform Whatever They Touch

Travel Well

Turn Chance Into Habit

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philosophy of language

is a dangerous gift. It offers itself to our use free of charge but once we accept it, it colonizes us.

For Lacan, language is such a dangerous gift: it offers itself to our use free of charge, but once we accept it, it colonizes us. The symbolic order emerges from a gift, an offering, which neutralizes its content in order to declare itself as a gift: when a gift is offered, what matters is not its content but the link between the giver and the receiver established when the other accepts the gift. (ZIzek 'how to read lacan... : 11)

is a determined less by what it permits us to say than by what it compels us to say.

Jakobson has shown that a speech-system is defined less by what it permits us to say than by what it compels us to say. (Barthes 'innaugural')

is a form which, owing to the child's immersion in the linguistic environment even prior to speaking, solicits the child as a whole (rather than fragmentarily).

language solicits the child as a whole thanks to the child's immersion in the linguistic environment even prior to speaking. (Landes 38-9)Nevertheless, linguistics treats language as an obi ect, emphasizing structures of which speakers are wholly unaware, and this appears to institute a pense e de survol that Merleau-Ponty wants to avoid. Structuralism requires a phenomenological grounding that will return to the lived experience of speaking. (Landes 39)

is a foundation for the more complex structures which correspond to the different aspects of culture.

Language, from this point of view, may appear as laying a kind of foundation for the more complex structures which correspond to the different aspects of culture' (SA 1: 69).

is a guide to behavior because its logic is transferred, through analogy, to other domains of human cognitive activity.

for Whorf, language is a guide to behavior because its logic is transferred, through analogy, to other domains of human cognitive activity (his most famous

is a guide to behavior in that its logic transfers across various domains. One can be forgiven for not realizing that a gas drum marked 'empty' still contains flammable gas.

For Whorf, language is a guide to behavior because its logic is transferred, through analogy, to other domains of human cognitive activity (his most famous example was the discovery of the common and dangerous interpretation of the label 'empty' on gas drums as equivalent to 'devoid of gas' and thus innocuous). (Duranti, Allesandro 2002. relativity)

is a living thing, like a cowpath: it is the creation of the cows themselves, who, having created it, follow it or depart from it according to their whims or their needs. From daily use, the path undergoes change.

The living language is like a cowpath: it is the creation of the cows themselves, who, having created it, follow it or depart from it according to their whims or their needs. From daily use, the path undergoes change. A cow is under no obligation to stay

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