Tag: ideation

Cover for What Is a Category: an index-card ground with the title in ink and green italic, and a faint circle with one marked point at the lower right.
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What Is a Category

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A category is supposed to be a container: things are in it or out, and the argument is about the things. The foundation says a category is a point on a circle, and a point has no inside. Nothing is in a category; membership is a mark a reader made about how far a thing stood from a named condition, and the thing did not move — which is why Pluto could leave the planets unchanged, why one tomato can be a fruit and a vegetable in a single ruling, and why no list of what a chair is closes. … readWhat Is a Category

Dark moss-green title card reading What Is Curiosity, with the kicker Ideation and a large faded S1 glyph in the lower right.
Cat Links Cosmic Dance, Ideation

What Is Curiosity

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Curiosity is not an appetite for information: an appetite is not ended by its first bite, and the subjects you know nothing about generate none of it. It is the length of the edge between what you have named and what has become readable — which is why naming lengthens that edge, and why believing you have finished a subject is the only thing that shortens it. … readWhat Is Curiosity

Dark ash and ochre cover reading What Is Temptation, with the subtitle: the pull is not an adversary and it is not a flaw; it is what a condition becoming readable feels like. A large ghosted P9 sits at lower right.
Cat Links Cosmic Dance, Ideation

What Is Temptation

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Temptation is usually placed either outside the person, in something with designs on them, or inside, in a flaw of character. Derived from the primitives instead, it is the felt signature of a condition becoming readable — a real relation with nothing intending on either end, and one you did not author. … readWhat Is Temptation