“Anyone who has undergone home repair lately knows that your everyday artisan uses language so loosely and makes false promises so glibly as to make your politicians, even the presidential candidate, seem like a model of accuracy and rectitude. 'Be there Wednesday at nine,' the workman will tell you. It is a lie. He is humoring you. He says it to silence you, the way you tell a child you will take it to Disneyland if it will stop crying.” IfsKnowsWayChildrenUseHomeSeemsLyingLanguageSilenceCryPoliticianPromiseModelsEverydayNinePresidentialCandidatesAccuracyDisneylandWednesdayPresidential CandidateWorkmenArtisansRectitudeFalse Promises Author:Mary McGrory
“Science begins with the world we have to live in, accepting its data and trying to explain its laws. From there, it moves toward the imagination: it becomes a mental construct, a model of a possible way of interpreting experience. The further it goes in this direction, the more it tends to speak the language of mathematics, which is really one of the languages of the imagination, along with literature and music. Art, on the other hand, begins with the world we construct, not with the world we see. It starts with the imagination, and then works toward ordinary experience.” WorldWayTryingArtHandsMovingLawScienceLiteratureSpeakLanguageImaginationAcceptingModelsOrdinaryMathematicsDataConstructsInterpretingLiterature And Music Author:Northrop Frye
“It's language as a kind of structural system. A diagram of a sentence, now that seems like a kind of architectural model. I don't know how to explain it, but it would be nice to try. Why, why this fascination?” KnowsTryingKindSeemsWould BeLanguageKnow HowNiceModelsSentencesBeing NiceFascinationDiagrams Author:Vito Acconci
“The biblical authors wrote of God's sovereignty over His world, and of man's experiences within that world, using such modes of speech about the natural order and human experience as were current in their days, and in a language that was common to themselves and their contemporaries. This is saying no more than that they wrote to be understood. Their picture of the world and things in it is not put forward as normative for later science, andy more than their use of Hebrew and Greek is put forward as a perfect model for composition in these languages.” MenWorldHumansUseOrderLanguageNaturalPerfectCommonSpeechModelsUnderstoodCurrentsGreekBiblicalCompositionSovereigntyHuman ExperienceSaying NoHebrewNatural Order Author:J. I. Packer
“I had all this anxiety about what it meant to be a minority. My professors - the same men who taught me the intricacies of language - just shied away from the issue. They didn't want to talk about it, other than to suggest I could be a "role model" to other Hispanics - when I went back to my barrio, I suppose.” MenWantLanguageRolesIssuesTaughtAnxietyModelsMinoritiesMeant To BeProfessorsRole ModelsIntricacy Author:Richard Rodriguez
“I pay my models to work with me, so there becomes this weird sort of economic bartering thing, which made me feel really sort of uncomfortable, almost as though you were buying into a situation - which, again, is another way of looking at those paintings. The body language in those paintings is a lot more stiff.” WayFeelsMadeBodyLanguagePaySituationEconomicPaintingModelsUncomfortableBuyingAnother WayBody LanguageBartering Author:Kehinde Wiley
“In studying language we can discover many basic properties of this cognitive structure, its organization, and also the genetic predispositions that provide the foundation for its development. So in this respect, linguistics, first of all, tries to characterize a major feature of human cognitive organization. And second, I think it may provide a suggestive model for the study of other cognitive systems. And the collection of these systems is one aspect of human nature.” ThinkingTryingFirstsHumansMayLanguageStudyHuman NatureDevelopmentMajorsModelsAspectOrganizationFoundationStructurePropertyFeaturesCollectionsCognitiveLinguistics Author:Noam Chomsky
“For one thing, studying language is by itself a part of a study of human intelligence that is, perhaps, the central aspect of human nature. And second, I think, it is a good model for studying other human properties, which ought to be studied by psychologists in the same way.” ThinkingWayHumansLanguageStudyOne ThingHuman NatureOughtModelsAspectPropertyPsychologistHuman Intelligence Author:Noam Chomsky
“An enormous amount of scientific language is metaphorical. We talk about a genetic code, where code originally meant a cipher; we talk about the solar system model of the atom as though the atom were like a sun and moon and planets.” LanguageSunPlanetsAmountMoonModelsEnormousCodeAtomsSolar SystemMetaphoricalCiphers Author:Steven Pinker
“As a graduate student, I wrote a long paper connecting the dots between mathematical models of learning and language development in children. It was published in a major journal.” ChildrenLongLanguageStudentsDevelopmentPaperMajorsModelsMathematicalGraduatesJournalConnectingDotsGraduate StudentsConnecting The DotsMathematical ModelsLanguage Development Author:Steven Pinker