Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric

The Meme Hustler | Evgeny Morozov Tim O’Reilly’s crazy talk Evgeny Morozov [from The Baffler No. 22, 2013] While the brightest minds of Silicon Valley are “disrupting” whatever industry is too crippled to fend off their advances, something odd is happening to our language. Old, trusted words no longer mean what they used to mean; often, they don’t mean anything at all. This is not to deny that many of our latest gadgets and apps are fantastic. Fortunately, Silicon Valley, that never-drying well of shoddy concepts and dubious paradigms—from wiki-everything to i-something, from e-nothing to open-anything—is ready to help. Silicon Valley has always had a thing for priests; Steve Jobs was the cranky pope it deserved. The enduring emptiness of our technology debates has one main cause, and his name is Tim O’Reilly. A stylish and smooth-talking self-promoter with a philosophical take on everything, O’Reilly is the Bernard-Henri Lévy of Route 101, the favorite court philosopher of the TED elites. The coup succeeded.

Le "Ricerche logiche" di Edmund Husserl (a cura di Jonathan Fanesi) Qualche appunto sulle Logische Untersuchungen di Husserl A cura di Jonathan Fanesi [ Con queste poche pagine non ho intenzione di offrire un’esposizione sistematica delle problematiche teoretiche interne alle Logische Untersuchungen, impresa questa che sarebbe al di fuori della mia attuale portata, bensì fornire a qualsivoglia lettore, quell’insieme di appunti che io stesso ho avuto modo di scrivere durante lo studio dell’ opera. Il precetto husserliano della chiarezza e dell’ evidenza, mai come nella nostra epoca, risulta fondamentale; eppure, molti procedono come se l’ unica legge fosse l’arbitrarietà assoluta, altri invece, affilano le punte di frecce che non scoccheranno mai contro il bersaglio e, altri ancora infine, spolverano i fossili all’ interno del museo della Filosofia, facendo passare il loro faticoso catalogare, il loro accurato spolverare, per un creativo e critico operare. ] “ La logica pura è il primo e più essenziale fondamento della logica metodologica.

Logical Fallacies: The Fallacy Files 75 Startup Tools And Apps new business ideas and startups - So you have a new business or startup idea and based on your analysis and research you have conducted, your confident that there is a market for it. Ok, now what? You need to possibly find a cofounder and team to start planning, seek funding and successfully execute the plan for a pilot or full launch. There are so many resources and tools out there that can assist you in managing and excuting your startup or new business idea more eficiently and effectively. As a result, I have produced a list of my favourite tools and applications covering the various disciplines you will need to undertake in order to successfully execute and launch your startup or new business. Here are just a few tools and applications that I have used over the years in managing and delivering small to large projects. Brainstorming Ideas | Bubbl.us Simple online application that helps you create colorful mind maps that you can print and share with others and it's FREE. MindManager Creately Springpad Evernote Branding | Notebox

Freelance Translator Info - a web site to provide useful information to translators Divisione in sillabe e contatore, con o senza sinalefe Benvenuto ai nostri divisore in sillabe online automatica, che ovviamente è anche contatore di sillabe. È possibile scrivere una parola, un lungo testo o poesie, e il nostro sito le puo dividere e contare. Un'altra cosa da notare è che se si scrive alcuni versi, cioè frasi separati da interruzioni di riga, le frasi saranno divise e se si seleziona l'opzione di conteggio di sillabe, si scrive accanto ad ogni linea il risultato. Dubita che le stelle siano fuoco, dubita che il sole si muova, dubita che la verità sia mentitrice, ma non dubitare mai del mio amore. Utilizzando i nostro divisore di sillabe (e contatore) attivati, il risultato sarebbe: du-bi-ta-che-le-stel-le-sia-no-fuo-co (11 sillabe) du-bi-ta-che-il-so-le-si-muo-va (10 sillabe) du-bi-ta-che-la-ve-ri-tà-sia-men-ti-tri-ce (13 sillabe) ma-non-du-bi-ta-re-mai-del-mio-a-mo-re (12 sillabe) Il secondo risultato mostra sillabe separate tenendo conto le sinalefe: Per favore, puoi aiutarci a tradurre correttamente questo sito?

SCHOPENHAUER'S 38 STRATAGEMS, OR 38 WAYS TO WIN AN ARGUMENT Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), was a brilliant German philosopher. These 38 Stratagems are excerpts from "The Art of Controversy", first translated into English and published in 1896. Carry your opponent's proposition beyond its natural limits; exaggerate it. The more general your opponent's statement becomes, the more objections you can find against it. The more restricted and narrow his or her propositions remain, the easier they are to defend by him or her. (abstracted from the book:Numerical Lists You Never Knew or Once Knew and Probably Forget, by: John Boswell and Dan Starer)

5 Unusual Ways to Become a Better Speaker You’ve been asked to speak at an important event. It’s a great opportunity and you should be thrilled—but since you rarely speak, especially in a formal setting, all you can think about is bombing. Unfortunately, captivating an audience is definitely a skill that takes years to develop and hone. Since you don’t have that kind of time, here are five unconventional ways to become a better speaker almost overnight: 1. Admitting a mistake is great but not when used simply to show how far you’ve come. 2. Then when you start speaking again, the audience naturally 1) assumes the pause was intentional and 2) decides you’re actually a confident and accomplished speaker. 3. 4. 5. And don’t worry that you’ll be missing out on an opportunity: When you help people make their professional or personal lives better, you’ve done all the selling you’ll need to do.

the free dictionary Glossario delle frasi fatte Da Wikipedia, l'enciclopedia libera. Questo glossario delle frasi fatte contiene i modi di dire più frequenti. Frasi fatte ed espressioni idiomatiche[modifica | modifica wikitesto] Nel glossario non sono inclusi i proverbi, che sono un particolare tipo di affermazione che cerca di sintetizzare una forma di sapere. Alcuni modi di dire sono comunque di origine proverbiale: ad esempio Campa cavallo deriva dal proverbio Campa cavallo che l'erba cresce, e sono legati al concetto di cliché. La differenza tra proverbi e frasi fatte può essere sottile. Una creazione usata da pochi parlanti, per esempio una semplice metafora, non è sempre considerabile come un modo di dire affermatosi in una lingua: è invece possibile che si tratti di un semplice fenomeno di idiosincrasia, dunque che venga considerato solo come una creazione individuale. Altri criteri di inclusione[modifica | modifica wikitesto] 0 - 9[modifica | modifica wikitesto] 30 febbraio / 31 febbraio A[modifica | modifica wikitesto] A bizzeffe

Quick Practical, Tactical Tips for Presentations In the past I’ve given some tips for handling meetings effectively, covering topics like: - How not to let your meeting go down a rat hole; - Dealing with the elephant in the room; - Dealing with skeletons in your closet; - How to make meetings discussions, not “pitches” - A tale of two pitches (I eventually invested in the first company that pitched) Today’s post is a subtle one about positioning yourself in a presentation. This might be a VC meeting but also might just be a sales or biz dev meeting. It’s any meeting where you are in a small room and are being called on to present on some form of overhead slides 1. If you look at Diagram A above you’ll see that the presenters are sitting at the opposite end of the table from where the screen is. If you look at Diagram B you’ll see that the people you’re presenting to can look you in the eyes and glance up at the screen. 2. I’ve lately been attending meetings with our shareholders (called LPs or limited partners). 3. 4. 5. 6.

Morpheme(s) of the Year « previous post | next post » In the tumultuous run-up to the momentous announcement of the American Dialect Society's Word of the Year (to be proclaimed on January 6, 2012), Language Log's own Ben Zimmer is the main point-man with the media. See here, here, and here. The Chinese, of course, are not to be outdone, so they have for the past few years been choosing a "Character of the Year." This year, 2011, the character selected is kòng 控. Everybody seems to think that kòng 控 means "control". "Kong, or 'control', is character of the year in China" More than two million internet users took part in the selection, say the organisers of the state-backed poll. Kong generally means "control" and replaces 2010's "zhang" which means "price hikes". The organisers say the choice symbolises the government's economic policy, which is aimed at keeping inflation under control. The phrase of the year is "shang bu qi" which means "too delicate to bear a blow". kòngzhì 控制 ("control; dominate") Permalink

Diversi Tipi Di Verbo - Appunti di Grammatica gratis Studenti.it 1. Diversi tipi di verbo A- VERBI PREDICATIVI Se contrapponiamo la frase i mesi volano alla frase queste giornate sono, notiamo che nel primo caso l'affermazione è sensata, anche senza ulteriori precisazioni e intende sottolineare un comune sentire; nel secondo caso l'affermazione risulta incompleta, sospesa, poiché il verbo non è autonomo e quindi richiede un completamento. Dunque, i verbi che hanno di per sé in significato autonomo e compiuto (es. uscire; fare; sopportare; nevicare; chiudere; dormire), possono "predicarlo" da soli e sono detti perciò predicativi.

"Under The Skin" Writer Walter Campbell On Epic Ads And Scarlett Johansson As An Alien Walter Campbell is one of the most awarded advertising creatives of the last 50 years. Some of his most memorable--and awarded--work has pushed the notion of a TV commercial into new creative territory. Spots like Volvo "Twister," Dunlop "Expect the Unexpected," made with director Tony Kaye are prime examples, but perhaps the best one is Guinness "Surfer" with director Jonathan Glazer, an ad many consider to be one of the best ever made. Campbell's latest collaboration with Glazer is the film Under the Skin, a sci-fi drama starring Scarlett Johansson as an alien who roams the streets of Scotland, seducing men to destroy them. The film, a loose adaptation of the 2001 Michael Faber book, took Glazer almost a decade to make and Campbell was brought in midway through the process. Campbell says instead of using the book his impression of what the story should be came out of many long conversations with Glazer. [Images courtesy of A24 Films]