#structural

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When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a lot of fun, but after we have done a structural analysis of every language in the world what's left? It was assumed there were basically no puzzles.


Noam Chomsky


#among #analysis #assumed #basically #college

Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.


Stephen Fry


#over #paper #somehow #structural #tend

If there's a severe recession, the automatic stabilizers will come into effect, and we will still try to reduce the structural deficit, but we will not try to keep cutting the budget so that we keep worsening a severe recession.


Franklin Raines


#budget #come #cutting #deficit #effect

The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency.


Herbert Read


#balance #efficiency #forms #general #greatest

Lacan’s defenders (as well as those of the other authors discussed here) tend to respond to these criticisms by resorting to a strategy that we shall call “neither/nor”: these writings should be evaluated neither as science, nor as philosophy, nor as poetry, nor ... One is then faced with what could be called a “secular mysticism”: mysticism because the discourse aims at producing mental effects that are not purely aesthetic, but without addressing itself to reason; secular because the cultural references (Kant, Hegel, Marx, Freud, mathematics, contemporary literature ... ) have nothing to do with traditional religions and are attractive to the modern reader.


Alan Sokal


#mysticism #postmodernism #poststructuralism #religion

When you make something, cleaning it out of structural debris is one of the most vital things you do.


Christopher Alexander


#debris #make #most #out #something

I pushed the process forward by saying, 'We should do this, this, and this right now. Please find the budget for me to find a structural engineer, a mechanical engineer, a civil engineer, so we can do the preliminary work.'


Michael Arad


#civil #engineer #find #forward #i

Most of the major increases in the debt ceiling have been accompanied by structural changes in the way we raise and spend money.


Charles F. Bass


#been #ceiling #changes #debt #debt ceiling

If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.


Wilhelm Dilthey


#anthropology #beings #context #experience #human

Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a descriptive preamble, the action of taking the cards, the development of the cards' manipulation and the revelation of what has been achieved.


Gavin Bryars


#action #apparently #been #breaks #cards