The Autism Rights Movement
Source: Biology of Cognition (1970), p. 31.
“We must, for example, use language, and our language is necessarily steeped in preconceived ideas.”
Source: Science and Hypothesis (1901), Ch. IX: Hypotheses in Physics, Tr. George Bruce Halsted (1913)
Context: It is often said that experiments should be made without preconceived ideas. That is impossible. Not only would it make every experiment fruitless, but even if we wished to do so, it could not be done. Every man has his own conception of the world, and this he cannot so easily lay aside. We must, for example, use language, and our language is necessarily steeped in preconceived ideas.
page 103
The Spirit of the Chinese People (1915), Chinese Language
The Libertarian as Conservative (1984)
Context: Libertarians complain that the state is parasitic, an excrescence on society. They think it’s like a tumor you could cut out, leaving the patient just as he was, only healthier. They’ve been mystified by their own metaphors. Like the market, the state is an activity, not an entity. The only way to abolish the state is to change the way of life it forms a part of. That way of life, if you call that living, revolves around work and takes in bureaucracy, moralism, schooling, money, and more. Libertarians are conservatives because they avowedly want to maintain most of this mess and so unwittingly perpetuate the rest of the racket. But they’re bad conservatives because they’ve forgotten the reality of institutional and ideological interconnection which was the original insight of the historical conservatives. Entirely out of touch with the real currents of contemporary resistance, they denounce practical opposition to the system as “nihilism,” “Luddism,” and other big words they don’t understand. A glance at the world confirms that their utopian capitalism just can’t compete with the state. With enemies like libertarians, the state doesn’t need friends.
Source: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, 1987, p. 120
Becker (1978) cited in: Peter Hamilton (2006) Visual Research Methods'. Volume 1. p. 214.
“We like to say peoplekind, not necessarily mankind. It’s more inclusive.”
'Peoplekind': Trudeau corrects woman for saying mankind http://torontosun.com/news/national/peoplekind-trudeau-corrects-woman-for-saying-mankind 7 August 2018
2018
