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Sebastian Fiedler posted this a while back. I appreciated it.

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I am rereading George Kelly's The Psychology of Personal Constructs from 1955. Kelly's sound theoretical work was so much ahead of his behaviorist peers in psychology at that time that it still appears to be surprisingly current.

The substance that a person construes is itself a process - just as the living person is a process. It presents itself from the beginning as an unending and undifferentiated process. Only when man attunes his ear to recurrent themes in the monotonous flow does his universe begin to make sense to him. Like a musician, he must phrase his experience in order to make sense of it. The phrases are distinguished events. The separation of events is what man produces for himself when he decides to chop up time into manageable lengths. Within these limited segments, which are based on recurrent themes, man begins to discover the bases for likenesses and differences. [George Kelly]

This sort of fits nicely with some parts of my discussion about the usefulness of personal Webpublishing as a reflective conversational tool. By explicating some of the 'phrases' we set in a verbal, retrievable, archived, and accessible way on a global network we appear to gain one more tool to 'discover the bases for likenesses and differences.' [Sebastian Fiedler]