Modes of Expression
theoretical (propositions) |
practical (results) |
lived experience (interiority) |
NECESSITY |
PROBABILITY |
POSSIBILITY |
POPE |
POLITICIAN/LAWYER |
POET |
statements of fact |
conditional expressions |
narration |
causal logic |
conditions (case logic?) |
analogic (case logic?) |
abstract / mathematical |
general / statistical |
concrete / description of experience |
dogmatic ATTITUDE An authoritative principle, belief, or statement of ideas or opinion, especially one considered to be absolutely true authoritarian DOUBT |
relativistic ATTITUDE Dependent on or interconnected with something else; not absolute. conditional |
faith-like ATTITUDE Belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence Capable of happening, existing, or being true without contradicting proven facts, laws, or circumstances. FAITH |
factual |
probable |
fictive |
quantitative |
quantitative/qualitative |
imaginative |
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I experience the world as necessary when I cannot change it in my encounters with it. I can't stop the rain and so on. I experience the world as probable when I believe I can change it or control it. If it may rain, then I can control what I do in response BUT I can't stop it from raining if it rains. I experience the world as possible when I want it to change--it will probably rain but it's possible that it won't.
How do these modalities of control work out in interpersonal communication:
DIGITAL/LOGICAL
nec: I can't make someone
love me
prob-c*: if I court them, they may come to love me
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prob-p:* this person should love me (typing--imaging)
{solipcistic??)
poss: I want this pesrson to love me. (imagining)
ANALOGICAL
nec: Unavoidably determined by prior conditions
or circumstances; inevitable
prob:* Likely but uncertain; plausible
prob* on the side of the analogical = typical
poss: Capable of happening, existing, or being true
without contradicting proven facts, laws, or circumstances
In the digital/logical example, I am positing two types of probability, statistical probability and typicality (expection of typical event), the latter is a type of methodical interpretation (e.g., learning a paritcular method of reading texts).
The RGB color model parallels the notion of modes of expression. There are only three primary colors, red, green, blue, the combinations of which produce innumerable colors: . http://www.experience.epson.com.au/help/understandingcolour/COL_G/0501_2.htm My primary components are expressions of necessity, probability, and possibility. Given the axiom of predominance, they reflect varying degrees of attitude. The attitudes are formed on the basis of belief systems--dogmatic, relativistic, faith-like. Attitude comes from aptus -- meaning fitness or adaptedness. Recall that Piaget defines intelligence in terms of adaptability. So attitudes reflect something about adaptability -- a dogmatic person does not adapt much. A relativistic person adapts depending on the situation. A person of faith adapts to almost any situation.