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	<title>Hermeneutic Heretic</title>
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	<description>Diverse observations on a variety of topics from the perspective of a cognitively and anthropologically minded linguist and educator</description>
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		<title>Inevitability of understanding: The folk theory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The statement from Ariana Huffington (in bold below) is one of the best examples of the folk theory upon which Critical Discourse Analysis is based - namely that words influence people in certain inevitable ways. It is also a good example of the sources of disaffection witht he mainstream debate experienced by US conservatives as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hermeneuticheretic.net/inevitability-of-understanding-the-folk-theory/</link>
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		<title>Blending and framing by paradox</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google Reader (1000+) &#8220;Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.&#8221; (Clement Atlee)

There is no doubt that pithy aphorisms are an important instrument in the socialisation toolkit  (construction inventory) or any group (from couples, groups of friends to political parties, nations and, these days, humanity). To [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hermeneuticheretic.net/blending-and-framing-by-paradox/</link>
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		<title>Unintended consequences of political correctness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Colbert I. King - Why Obama Stands With His Church - washingtonpost.com 
This history comes to mind as I listen to conservative commentators, chief among them MSNBC&#8217;s Pat Buchanan, brand as &#34;racist&#34; the slogan adopted by Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago: &#34;Unashamedly black and unapologetically Christian.&#34;

I am a big supporter (including in print) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hermeneuticheretic.net/unintended-consequences-of-political-correctness/</link>
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		<title>Are US copyright laws unconstitutional: Default states semantics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LII: Constitution To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
I had no idea that copyright was part of the US Constitution until I read about this in an LA Times Op-Ed. The article was debating the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hermeneuticheretic.net/are-us-copyright-unconstitutional-default-states-semantics/</link>
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		<title>Individual perspicacity, collective na&#239;vet&#233;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nicholas Kristof is puzzled and pleased that the US electorate is keeping two individuals as front runners who are willing to express unpopular opinions:
The World&#8217;s Worst Panderer - New York Times All of this is puzzlingly mature on the part of the electorate. A common complaint about President Bush is that he walls himself off [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hermeneuticheretic.net/individual-perspicacity-collective-navet/</link>
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		<title>Two models of governance: Foundations of policy negotiation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lakoff in &#8216;Moral Politics&#8217; talks about how competing models of family influence policy and politics debates in the US. This model duality is not only present in a variety of contexts but I would claim is the very foundation of all policy discourse (argument). In other words, whereever you look at a policy controversy you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hermeneuticheretic.net/two-models-of-governance-foundations-of-policy-negotiation/</link>
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		<title>Finally! The truth about truth: Folk foundations of scientific reductionism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On The Media I&#8217;m not a psychologist, but I think that at some deep level, if the situation you&#8217;re living is a lie, and the situation these boys were living was one, and, moreover, at least the father was complicit in some way in the murder of these children&#8217;s parents - that situation, I do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hermeneuticheretic.net/finally-the-truth-about-truth-folk-foundations-of-scientific-reductionism/</link>
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		<title>Brief endorsement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Obama has the smarts, the plans and, yes, the charisma to capably lead and transform a nation that aches for a new direction. 

Editorials &#38; Opinion &#124; Obama for the Democrats &#124; Seattle Times Newspaper 

My voice, particularly on this blog, with no readership is of no consequence. I have no vote in American elections [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Primogeniture: Negotiating the internal &#8216;logic&#8217; of social change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BBC - Radio 4 Woman&#8217;s Hour -Male Primogeniture Jenni discusses the law of primogeniture with Liberal Democrat MP Lynne Featherstone, who has asked the Equality and Human Rights Commission to investigate the legality of this centuries old practice, and to royal commentator and author Charles Mosley.

BBC - Radio 4 Woman&#8217;s Hour -Primogeniture: Should the law [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hermeneuticheretic.net/primogeniture-negotiating-the-internal-logic-of-social-change/</link>
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		<title>The perception problem and the question of rationality in life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Women Are Never Front-Runners - New York Times 
But what worries me is that he is seen as unifying by his race while she is seen as divisive by her sex. 
What worries me is that she is accused of &#8220;playing the gender card&#8221; when citing the old boys&#8217; club, while he is seen as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hermeneuticheretic.net/the-perception-problem-and-the-question-of-rationality-in-life/</link>
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		<title>Negotiating radial categories: Some mothers do have them</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is It Possible To Be Half-Adopted?&#xA0; Imagining someone giving away semen or an egg couldn&#x2019;t possibly feel the same as imagining a parent giving a way a baby. Could it?       The friend who asked whether I consider Mrs. Ramirez to be adopted is adopted herself, something she doesn&#x2019;t associate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hermeneuticheretic.net/negotiating-radial-categories-some-mothers-do-have-them/</link>
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		<title>Collective cognition, culture, mind share and patterns of action</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ubuntu: Just how popular is it? - Starry Hope Productions&#8230;Ubuntu has managed to gain a large portion of the Linux mind share, at least amongst the tech community.

Wikipedia: Mind share is the amount of attention required by something and the time spent thinking about something. It can also refer to the development of consumer awareness [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hermeneuticheretic.net/collective-cognition-culture-mind-share-and-patterns-of-action/</link>
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		<title>Phallic imagery in English-language comedy and the theory of image schemas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now, there&#8217;s no doubt in my mind whatsoever that George Lakoff&#8217;s theory of mental imagery (usually referred to via the concept of Image Schemas) describes a phenomenon that is profoundly real. However, the question remains what kind of reality it has. It exists and we see it all the time. But is it something that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hermeneuticheretic.net/phallic-imagery-in-english-language-comedy-and-the-theory-of-image-schemas/</link>
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		<title>More meaningful than what? Populations and truth in social science</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WHNews: Pay Gap - No Pay Day As of 30th October, if you’re a woman and you go out to work, you’re working for nothing until the 31st December. The Fawcett Society and the union Unison have declared today ‘Women’s No Pay Day.’ They’ve worked out that, given an average 17 per cent pay gap [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hermeneuticheretic.net/more-meaningful-than-what-populations-and-truth-in-social-science/</link>
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		<title>Convention over logic: Limits of implicature</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Evening News 24 - Refuse fire near City Hall&#xA0; Arsonists sparked an emergency response after setting light to a rubbish container near City Hall on Saturday evening.

The suspects started the fire shortly after 7pm on St Giles Street.
Two fire engines were sent to the scene and firefighters used hoses to extinguish the flames.

This is an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indeterminacy in art criticism as frame negotiation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On The Media: Transcript of &#34;Not So Innocent&#34; (October 5, 2007) RICHARD HALPERN: Right. There&#8217;s often a kind of loss of innocence that takes place in the paintings themselves, which reflect on a potential loss of innocence on the part of the viewer. I think an interesting example of that is Rockwell&#8217;s painting called The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hermeneuticheretic.net/indeterminacy-of-framing-in-art-criticism/</link>
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		<title>Utility of prejudice: Reducing freedom to cognition and vice versa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quote Details: William Hazlitt: Without the aid of&#8230; - The Quotations Page Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room. William Hazlitt&#xA0;English essayist (1778 - 1830)

It&#8217;s always disconcerting to find that something I&#8217;ve been saying for years has been said a long time ago. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hermeneuticheretic.net/utility-of-prejudice-reducing-freedom-to-cognition-and-vice-versa/</link>
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		<title>Perspectives, views and child cognition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Media Blog on National Review Online
What the BBC is telling children about the 9/11 attacks   [Tom Gross]
Here is what the BBC’s widely-read children’s section of their website (CBBC) is telling kids about the 9/11 attacks, the 6th anniversary of which falls today.
It is not quite the al-Qaeda view, but it almost is.
When I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hermeneuticheretic.net/perspectives-views-and-child-cognition/</link>
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		<title>Cognition, information, knowledge and the limits of serial computing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BBC - Radio 4 - Today Programme Listen Again 11 Sept 2007 08:50  It&#8217;s the 50th anniversary of the British Computer Society. But what can we expect over the next half century? Will our levels of dependence on the internet and computers change?
One of the guests on the programme, Oliver Sparrow, made the following [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hermeneuticheretic.net/cogntion-information-knowledge-and-the-limits-of-serial-computing/</link>
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		<title>Poetry in blogs and cognitive persistence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just Say No &#8220;Nonetheless I took the tomatoes away.&#8221;
This is only partially a hermeneutic post.
It&#8217;s so rare to see poetry in blogs (unless they&#8217;re poets&#8217; blogs which I don&#8217;t read) but this last line in a post, turned it into a poem. It reminded me of my favorite poem by Vladimír Holan about a Russian [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hermeneuticheretic.net/poetry-in-blogs-and-cognitive-persistence/</link>
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