tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3354814281006350164.post324817457371609898..comments2023-03-23T21:44:30.265-04:00Comments on ENG L371 Critical Practices: "Equipment for Living" (in uncertain times): A World Lenstgrabanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16913401531606867135noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3354814281006350164.post-22093686582824957042011-11-27T19:04:48.370-05:002011-11-27T19:04:48.370-05:00Terministic screens are more than just being subje...Terministic screens are more than just being subjective in a situation, it's not being able to understand a situation in any other way than your own. You use the example of poetry, but poetry is an art that is designed to have multiple interpretations. The idea of terministic screens extends to every facet of our lives. As some one who walks down a street and sees a dog and has absolutely no idea about dog breeds than all I know is that I am seeing a dog. On the other hand, if I was well learned in dog breeds than I would see this dog and immediately know with a fair amount of certainty whether it's good with kids, whether it's good with other dogs, whether it's a pure bread. All of these thoughts would not have even entered the first person's head because they did not have the training to understand what it is they were observing. If you wish for a more thorough explanation, reread the passage where the different interpretations of a human's instinctual responses which starts on page 48.brjmcclahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03294492963846283633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3354814281006350164.post-65819103875534832252011-11-25T21:48:28.425-05:002011-11-25T21:48:28.425-05:00I have two points relevant to your post and comple...I have two points relevant to your post and completely unrelated to each other.<br /><br />First, there's this thing called a beginner's mind. Here's a link about it: http://www.intrex.net/chzg/hartman4.htm<br /><br />We talked about this in my EDUC-M 300 class. It's all about going into a situation with absolutely no preconceptions, which is supposed to help you to keep from using stereotypes. And, we all decided that it was absolutely impossible.<br /><br />It seems like Burke would agree, and, based on your post, I'd have to agree that there's really nothing wrong with that. Stereotypes are bad, but most of them or true. If they weren't, they wouldn't exist. If weren't going to exist, then statistics wouldn't exist either, and that's kind of impossible since people exist. And, therefore, terministic screens exist.<br /><br />Secondly, (and I guess these points are more related than I thought) you reminded me of movie adaptations. People get so bent out of shape about books that become movies. If an author had an idea about a book, wrote it, and published it, the reader still gave it a different meaning. The director of a movie is just another human being who read the book with a terministic screen.Jaylynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12905039825200585181noreply@blogger.com