E-Prime for nice clarification

[bottomlander]

E-prime seems a nice language tool to clarify controversial personal theories.
Here, E means English; prime means distinguishment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-prime

With the use of E-prime, those subjective, assertive, speculative, unsure sentences/proclamations may use terms: appears as, seems like, in my metaphysics system, .... etc, instead of simply use an over-simplified or proudly is.

For example:
"electron is a particle" can be re-wrote into "electron appears as a particle".
"= is TOE" can be re-wrote into "= seems a TOE [in my personal theory]".


Best Regards. Bottomlander

[austintorn@aol.com]

Everybody seems separate and seems to act as separate, so much so that it seems we can't even read minds. Also, much seems unequal and so it seems that there is a very good chance that it is.

[bottomlander]

Everybody seems separate and seems to act as separate, so much so that it seems we can't even read minds. Also, much seems unequal and so it seems that there is a very good chance that it is.

Dear austintorn,

Yes, your good demonstration changes a subjective controversy to become an objection information provision!

Actually, E-prime (to remove the word "is") seems has more and more users in Science and Philosophy works - those academic and serious works. And personal subjective writings seldom use E-prime writing style.



Best Regards. Bottomlander

[austintorn@aol.com]

Bill Clinton said "Depends on what the meaning of 'is' is". As in "So, there is no affair" to subtly cover the interviewer's questions about if there was.

[Mikal]

E-prime seems a nice language tool to clarify controversial personal theories.
Here, E means English; prime means distinguishment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-prime

With the use of E-prime, those subjective, assertive, speculative, unsure sentences/proclamations may use terms: appears as, seems like, in my metaphysics system, .... etc, instead of simply use an over-simplified or proudly is.

For example:
"electron is a particle" can be re-wrote into "electron appears as a particle".
"= is TOE" can be re-wrote into "= seems a TOE [in my personal theory]".





Best Regards. Bottomlander

Bottomlander when I was training to become a Youth Councilor it was mandatory to study the semantical complexities of "words." Is for example isolates anything you are talking about into a fixed state implying sureness, this is the way it is and rather closes whatever is being discussed.
Using the word "appears or seems" allows anything being discussed open for further validation and possibilities. Just some thoughts...


Mikal

[austintorn@aol.com]

I appear to be conscious; therefore I might be real, or so it seems to my seeming thoughts.

[Mikal]

Austie....I think your real...I don't think you have to doubt that....if you want to check for sure go back out to those bushes you were trimming and check if in the past little while you did go there and trim them.....chuckles


Mikal