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Valery Kourinsky
Theme 3 : Associating (mnemonics)
I. The concept of associating; related concepts.
II. Associating and culture, transmission of culture.
III. Associating and the metaphor, inequivalence of a thought occurred to the thought expressed.
Seme-signs producing feelings:
- paint - color;
- sound (sound - color - synesthesie - co-sensation);
- image - outline, sensation - emotion;
- speech stream - complicated sign perceptive experiences;
- gestures, mimics, etc.;
- chemism of a feeling as a secondary sign -- seme (an inner feeling);
- dialectics of emotion - sensation and thought-feeling.
IV. Thought expression and associating.
1. Adequate perception of concepts.
2. Thesaurus: mechanism of accumulation.
3. Bringing together syllogistic concepts.
4. Thinking as a process of joining concepts.
5. Studying a language in a process of thinking.
6. Associating as a mnemonic method:
a) only kept apart images;
b) only in contact;
c) via peak paradox.
V. Associating and slow reading.
1. Vertical and horizontal associating.
2. Obvious and profoundly exhaustive associating.
3. The hedonistic function of reading and associating:
a) comfortability: reduction of thinking to self-appearing associations (interest);
b) removal of barriers in associating (transfer into the flood of imagination);
c) playing in earnest - hedonism, insight into being, etc.
4. Slow reading and comprehension.
VI. Fatigue and associating.
1. Two kinds of fatigue: common vegetative - physiological and specific psychointellectual.
2. A short or a point tiredness and a long extended exhaustion due to one's occupation, work,
everyday routine. Psychic and intellectual weariness.
3. Embroadening of outlook; associating, thesaurus of feelings and experiences; alleviation of
psychic and intellectual weariness. Abundance of experiences and feelings.
4. Languages and outlook while associating and alleviating fatigue.
5. Languages as associative systems ("the language is a vast verse").
6. Thinking is paradoxical:
a) thinking as a source of learning (joy of discovery); heuristic ability; invention of metaphors;
b) thinking as a play component (divertissement arranging); (the nature of entertainment lies in
alleviation of tension) and distraction.
VII. Doubt and associating:
- the definition: "Doubt is a lack of concrete comfortable association."
- technique:
a) the invention of a momentary association (a mould): any starting idea (an opinion);
b) clarification;
- apprehension of doubt as a natural impulse.
VIII. Associating and a few aspects of fast reading.
1. The previous act of understanding as a system of association. "The associated whole with a
certain number of doubts and gaps."
2. Fast reading as a method of clarifying concepts in demand and bridging gaps (alleviation of
doubts).
3. Reading for acquaintance: not for feelings or experiences, just for information.
4. Some aspects of fast reading technique connected with associating as the natural process of
thinking:
a) putting the left brain into action after making attempts to grasp 'whole meaning' (an image);
b) catching of associative flashes and continuous thinking ahead;
c) associating after having looked through or fast reading.
* * *
The thought repeats like train the line of way,
solemnity and joy are mixed with sadness
as good intention with the evil madness,
the bright and sunny with the dim and gray.
The volumes geometrically play
the sense of April sending us to happy
world of its rightness and correctness,
resembling living creatures, stay.
And so the one, the two, the four, the ten
speak in the melodies and little “then” —
a funny bug researches the legato.
It philosophically stops and contemplate
before it chooses a new better fate —
like Aristotle or like Elder Kato.
Regards,
Valery Kourinsky
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