Corrie van Wijk
25-04-2008, 01:32 PM
Admin: This text quoted below is taken from the article "Proximity and Change" by Penny Tompkins and James Lawley. The full article with diagrams can be found here (http://www.cleanlanguage.co.uk/artic....html/print/56)
"Another way to classify kinds of adjacency is in relation to what we call the fundamental components of perception:
[...]
Time
Just before or just after
Events that are simultaneous and 'next to'
[...]
Everyday language
Linguistically there are lots of little words whose job is to put two or more ideas together; to create adjacency in our mind. As well as the words listed in the above table, consider:
while, since, as, then
[...]
'And' is a simple way to put two ideas side by side - whether they have a relationship or not. For example, starting a question with 'and' instantly creates an adjacency between what the person has just said and what you are about to say.
[...]
The next-to-ness of ideas, symbols, people, places, beliefs and values is a natural way to encode meaning. It matters when things are adjacent to each other."
Oxford Dictionary:
Coincide: Occupy same portion of space; occur at and occupy same time; agree together or with; concur in opinion, etc.
Coincidence: (Instance of) being coincident; notable concurrence of events in circumstances without apparent causal connexion.
This section is labelled as "David's exploration of 'the best next thing'."
That is different from J&P's definition: I think he meant 'approximately' as in a 'proxy space', meaning if you can't get exactly what you want, the next (closest in similarity) thing may do as well.
"Another way to classify kinds of adjacency is in relation to what we call the fundamental components of perception:
[...]
Time
Just before or just after
Events that are simultaneous and 'next to'
[...]
Everyday language
Linguistically there are lots of little words whose job is to put two or more ideas together; to create adjacency in our mind. As well as the words listed in the above table, consider:
while, since, as, then
[...]
'And' is a simple way to put two ideas side by side - whether they have a relationship or not. For example, starting a question with 'and' instantly creates an adjacency between what the person has just said and what you are about to say.
[...]
The next-to-ness of ideas, symbols, people, places, beliefs and values is a natural way to encode meaning. It matters when things are adjacent to each other."
Oxford Dictionary:
Coincide: Occupy same portion of space; occur at and occupy same time; agree together or with; concur in opinion, etc.
Coincidence: (Instance of) being coincident; notable concurrence of events in circumstances without apparent causal connexion.
This section is labelled as "David's exploration of 'the best next thing'."
That is different from J&P's definition: I think he meant 'approximately' as in a 'proxy space', meaning if you can't get exactly what you want, the next (closest in similarity) thing may do as well.