The thing you need to understand about
Economics is that it's a nomos of oikos
Biology is that it's a logos of bios
Psychology is that it's a logos of psukhe
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aside from psukhe
i thought it was psyche
but whatever, close enough
geometry, or land-measuring
i think people resort to etymologies because it's very difficult to supply a singular definition that exclusively encompasses all branches of the discipline, maybe? but that's true of a lot of things
Which I guess makes it a different sort of pretentious.
I digress. Dead horse.
Oh, indeed.
Granted, it's at least short and sweet and uses terms with very specific definitions that can be dealt with on their own terms, but that almost makes it more annoying, because it's hard to say whether they're being used for what they mean and their brevity or because they sound smart.
It does allow a simple retort, though: "A telos of eros is reproduction. Particles, dear boy."
the wording was new and that's what people found funny, but the argument itself is a very common bit of homophobic reasoning
Hm?
or maybe i'm reading him wrong
Do you mean the part of speech? "a" and "the" aren't particles, they're articles.
...I screwed up. So it goes. They're a letter away from each other.
i was like what are there fuckin telos particles somewhere? am i living in xenosaga now?
In grammar, a particle is a part of speech that is not grammatically inflected. In English, the definite article is indeed a particle, although the indefinite is technically inflected in a wishy-washy way ("a" versus "some") so I was only half-right.
and how does this relate to the gnosis
(i know what a particle is. a bit. more in japanese grammar than english.)