RE: How are you today?
July 23, 2013 at 2:43 pm
(This post was last modified: July 23, 2013 at 2:43 pm by Tea Earl Grey Hot.)
I've been trying to increase my vocabulary this month. I found this weird vocabulary iPhone game that is suppose to do that. It's actually meant for high schoolers preparing for the SAT but it seems to be also good for general study. I'm also reviewing English grammar from an old college textbook I had from one of my freshman classes a few years ago. Another subject I'm reviewing at the moment is modern music theory. I learned college level modern Music Theory when I was ages 15 to 18 but ever since then I've been focusing almost exclusively on modal counterpoint and thoroughbass which are two older disciplines of composition/improvisation. They're not at all entirely different from modern music theory (many of the principles of modern music theory are directly derived from counterpoint and thoroughbass) but they have some major conceptual differences. The main difference is that the concepts of chordal roots, chordal inversions, and functional harmony are absent from counterpoint and thoroughbass. Such concepts and concerns didn't exist yet when those disciplines were in development and use. It's not that you can't identify roots, inversions and functional procedures in ancient music (you'll find of plenty instances of those things), it's just that composers and musicians didn't think of their music in those terms yet.
This week, I got a college level logic text book by Harry J. Gensler. After some thought last year, I figured it was odd to only know how to identify logical fallacies but not know how to form a good logical argument. Last year I bought a short little book by Graham Priest that introduces the basics of logic and I completed that book quickly. This new textbook by Gensler however looks like a monster. I don't know how long it's going to take me to complete it at 432 pages.
This week, I got a college level logic text book by Harry J. Gensler. After some thought last year, I figured it was odd to only know how to identify logical fallacies but not know how to form a good logical argument. Last year I bought a short little book by Graham Priest that introduces the basics of logic and I completed that book quickly. This new textbook by Gensler however looks like a monster. I don't know how long it's going to take me to complete it at 432 pages.
My ignore list
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
