symbolisation

• “symbolisation" of five; and there is not the slightest ground for any belief that the apparent "fiveness" of anything in the Great Pyramid had”

  Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1

• “Finally, with regard to spelling: the spoken word is the living form of a word — it is the word itself, as the Oxford English Dictionary puts it — of which its spelling is but a conventional symbolisation.”

  “Attacks” on the language are greatly misunderstood

• “Smell is pure symbolisation, as I understand -- discrete "aesthemes" as signifiers of discrete chemicals.”

  More Aesthetics

• “Rather they form a barrier of abstract symbolisation which, like the numbers on the cards, separates us from the stimulus that would otherwise invoke an automatic response.”

  Archive 2007-02-01

• “That barrier of abstract symbolisation doesn't help him stop himself from reaching for the larger bowl.”

  Archive 2007-02-01

• “You got (im) possibility junkies who are all about the defection from reality (c.f. Cubist fragmentation, Abstract non-representation, Surrealist symbolisation).”

  Archive 2007-03-01

• “Reality in itself, in its stupid existence, is never intolerable: it is language, its symbolisation, which makes it such.”

  enowning

• “The situation is not so serious, and the concepts are not homeless after all; or the record of habits suggests an element of willed symbolisation or even dramatisation.”

  Romanes Lecture, Oxford - 'Religious Lives'

• “The whole hierograph thus combines, in an extremely simple and instructive unity, the symbolisation of Apis,”

  The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author

• “It is evident that he keeps a Bestiary, or record of his experiences in bestiology, otherwise called bestial eikonography; and if he be requested to give a more explicit definition of the article, he will perhaps inform you that it is a record of the types of the ecclesiological symbolisation of beasts.”

  The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author

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