Are you Mad?
`But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
`Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
`How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
`You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
Alice didn't think that proved it at all; however, she went on` And how do you know that you're mad?'
`To begin with,' said the Cat, `a dog's not mad. You grant that?'
`I suppose so,' said Alice.
`Well, then,' the Cat went on, `you see, a dog growls when it's angry, and wags its tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad.'
Ted posted this on the thought of the day... It made be think about how we define things. So many words that we use daily we don't really have a good "working definition" for. Like in Reality Bites when Winona Ryder's character is asked "Define Irony"... she says something to the effect of "I can't define it, but I know it when I see it." So, as a new productive effort of my blogging I am going to start including definitions of words I use all the time, but can't necessarily explain well.
We'll start with irony.
irony : the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning
This is only one of many definitions provided by webster.
Enjoy!
`Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
`How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
`You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
Alice didn't think that proved it at all; however, she went on` And how do you know that you're mad?'
`To begin with,' said the Cat, `a dog's not mad. You grant that?'
`I suppose so,' said Alice.
`Well, then,' the Cat went on, `you see, a dog growls when it's angry, and wags its tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad.'
Ted posted this on the thought of the day... It made be think about how we define things. So many words that we use daily we don't really have a good "working definition" for. Like in Reality Bites when Winona Ryder's character is asked "Define Irony"... she says something to the effect of "I can't define it, but I know it when I see it." So, as a new productive effort of my blogging I am going to start including definitions of words I use all the time, but can't necessarily explain well.
We'll start with irony.
irony : the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning
This is only one of many definitions provided by webster.
Enjoy!
posted by Deb at 1:49 PM
1 Comments:
Hey Deb,
I am so glad that you are again part of the blogging world. Since your blog is linked from mine, I have coninuously been checking it for updates and to my suprise, I found a whole new blog. It looks great and I am so glad to hear you are doing well. Congrats on passing your exam, you Ph.D. Candidate, you. Well, i look forward to more posts.
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