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Language as Hermeneutic

: A Primer on the Word and Digitization

by Walter J. Ong, Walter Ong, Sara van den Berg

Language in all its modes―oral, written, print, electronic―claims the central role in Walter J. Ong’s acclaimed speculations on human culture. After his death, his archives were found to contain unpublished drafts of a final book manuscript that Ong en

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“The articulate remains always embedded in the inarticulate.”

— Walter Ong, amazon.com

Tagged: The Secret of Secrecy

“Science itself is always incomplete articulation.”

— Walter Ong, amazon.com

Tagged: Science, Scientific Method

“What was earlier inviolably intimate or totally inaccessible is often now on total public display.”

— Walter Ong, amazon.com

Tagged: Digital Intimacy, Voyureism

“There is no way to break down into individual articulated items the absolute totality of even one person’s history, much less of the entirety of human existence or of the entire universe—or even of a baseball game.”

— Walter Ong, amazon.com

Tagged: The Impossibility Of Articulation, It Can Never Be Said , Limits of Logic, How Can It Ever Be Captured? , Deep

“We can keep our thinking and experiments as logical as possible, but the truth has to be worked out to some degree at random and then tested for logicality after we have stumbled on it by ways which may well involve some logic but involve much more besides.”

— Walter Ong, amazon.com

Tagged: Logic Is An Aftermath, Against Logic, Logicality, Never Ending Story, Forever Grasping

“Order is often a very desirable good and can be indispensable to intelligence and understanding, but to reduce intelligence simply to order is to trivialize intelligence.”

— Walter Ong, amazon.com

Tagged: order, Epistemology, The Logic Force, Forcing Logic

“Something is always concealed. For no manifestation reveals everything, and interpretation, no matter how carefully formulated, can never be total in its verbal formulation.”

— Walter Ong, amazon.com

Tagged: Limits of Knowledge, Concealment, Forever Grapsing, Epistemology

“The nonverbal digital dichotomies of computer language and DNA require the hermeneutic of verbal or alphabetic language.”

— Sara van den Berg, amazon.com

Tagged: The Technology of Language, The Technology of Thought And Expression, Alphabet, No Science Without Literature, Scientific Groundings

“As computing grows ever greater in speed and scale, as the chip is replaced by the quark and even by the human cell, and as the human body itself comes to be regarded as the expression of genetic information, we have an ever greater need for interpretation and for language.”

— Sara van den Berg, amazon.com

Tagged: The Next Stages of Humanity, The Technology of Language

“Big data can absorb individual voices, so much so that the self, the interpreter, may seem vulnerable, even lost.”

— Sara van den Berg, amazon.com

Tagged: Information Overload, Lost In Data Oceans, Identity, Data, Quote of the Moment

“What was earlier inviolably intimate or totally inaccessible is often now on total public display.”

— Walter Ong, amazon.com

Tagged: Quote of the Moment, The Digital Age, Exhibitionism In The Digital Age

“As we study other peoples, past or present, we dissolve the totality of their existence into items we are able to handle and fail to note the other parts of their lives which remain unassimilable to ours as a whole.”

— Walter Ong, amazon.com

Tagged: Knowledge Without First-Hand Proximity, Issues of Abstraction, Epistemology, The Problem of Knowledge Abstraction

“One of the abiding problems of explanation is that it splits issues analytically in order to clarify them, and in the process often impoverishes or denatures the issues, depriving them of some of their full and essential depth.”

— Walter Ong, amazon.com

Tagged: The Limits of Knowledge, Epistemology, Analytical Reductionism, Hurtles In Objective Interpretation

“The more we explain, the more we generate need for further explanation.”

— Walter Ong, amazon.com

Tagged: Knowledge, The Never Ending Story, Forever Grasping, No End to Epistemology, Truth as Movement

“What is involved here is not relativism in the subjective sense but rather relationism: one can indeed determine truth or falsity, but truth is ultimately verifiable in complex ways, not in any simple way.”

— Walter Ong, amazon.com

Tagged: Relativism vs. Relationism, Relationism, Infinite Webs of Truth, Millions of Shades of Truth

“The ancient Greek term mythos, which yields our English 'myth,' at its root means anything delivered by word of mouth and thus from the start was radically acoustic.”

— Walter Ong, amazon.com

Tagged: Etymology, Orality, Myth, Meaning in Vocalization, Word Origins

“There is no end to interpretation.”

— Walter Ong, amazon.com

Tagged: Hermeneutics, endless possibilities, A Text Is Always New