tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10721624.post5358953338661771053..comments2023-10-30T12:26:15.822+01:00Comments on Research as a Second Language: Where Is Your Knowledge?Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10721624.post-75102825381911350952014-11-29T22:41:25.795+01:002014-11-29T22:41:25.795+01:00I would reduce this time to 20 minutes. :)I would reduce this time to 20 minutes. :)Lily Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02696436031777040832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10721624.post-8224922887988003672014-11-29T13:40:06.168+01:002014-11-29T13:40:06.168+01:00Nietzsche, of course. Here's the post about pr...Nietzsche, of course. <a href="http://secondlanguage.blogspot.dk/2011/04/promise.html" rel="nofollow">Here's the post about promising.</a>Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10721624.post-57170898323816182642014-11-29T13:34:11.398+01:002014-11-29T13:34:11.398+01:00Where theres a will and a way, I usually say, it&#...Where theres a will and a way, I usually say, it's probably going on.<br /><br />If I understand you correctly, you're saying that one shouldn't will something impossible. The prisoner should not want to escape in a vain a general manner, but should form his will in a manner appropriate to his cell. That's not to say he should just accept his imprisonment, of course, just that his will should be looking for a way out.<br /><br />Reminds me of a poem I once wrote, which included the line <a href="http://www.wordforword.info/vol9/Basboll.htm" rel="nofollow">"A careful description of the desire to escape may indicate the bind.”</a><br /><br />I sometimes talk of promises invoking Nietsche and Ricoeur, who call a promise "the memory of the will".<br /><br />Applied to knowledge, yes, I'd say that you should not claim to know something if there's "no way you could write it" in a paragraph in 27 minutes.Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10721624.post-41675844085736215552014-11-28T12:40:01.574+01:002014-11-28T12:40:01.574+01:00Where there's a will, there is a way.
Where ...Where there's a will, there is a way. <br /><br />Where there's knowledge, there is 27 minutes. <br /><br />PS: The proverb "Where there's a will, there is a way" may, of course, be read through its American and facile interpretation, i.e. as indicating that wishfull thinking is enough for success in life. But it might also be read as stressing something more serious, namely a *where*. That is, the necessity of a (physical) place of organization for your goals, which should not remain mere goals, but must be implemented through a *way*. I intend my rewrite of the proverb to indicate something simliar.Presskornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03480116067878605339noreply@blogger.com