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2023? Oof. That's brutal.

It's frustrating when you've submitted a book manuscript at the end of 2024 and it's still in limbo as you're coming to the end of 2025.

I was primarily remaking on the way AI research is prioritized when you arguably don't get the Chinese Room without Speech Act theory, since his conceptions of intentionality and consciousness come directly from Speech Act Theory. 2/2

Yeah, that's fair. But I think for most of us in linguistics & philosophy of language Austin and Searle's names just inherently go together as a pair. 1/2

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We suggest that force dynamics represents the unexplored, but essential element by which the diversity of these two prepositions may be accounted for in a cognitively plausible manner.
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Prepositions ἐπί and κατά are commonly considered two of the more difficult prepositions to understand. They are used in a variety of contexts with English glosses that proliferate without apparent reason.
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At SBL this coming November, we examine how the human experience of forces, and efforts to counteract those forces structure the meaning of Greek prepositions in the physical realm and how force-dynamic patterns motivate usage in abstract domains.
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The rocks supply a counterforce to the force of the storm, a stabilizing force that opposes the sweep of the waves as they crash against the land. It is when these two opposing forces meet that the ship could become compromised.
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In Acts ‎(example 2), the force of the winds and water current compel the ship in one direction, but Paul and his compatriots know that a ship that is dashed against the rocks will splinter apart or at least end their journey quickly.
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Note that Saul ‎(example 1) is reliant on the force of gravity as he falls downward onto his sword. His sword provides a counterforce or opposing force that when pressed against via gravity will pierce through Saul’s body. The opposing force of one object against another results in Saul’s death.
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Their ship could have run aground along the rocks, so they dropped anchors from the stern to hold their location steady.
However, there is also a key force-dynamic aspect to each expression.
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There is a spatial component to the statements in ‎(1) and ‎(2). Saul is in a position over his sword and falls in the direction of the sword from above. Likewise in Acts, Paul and his fellow travelers were on a ship in the Mediterranean Sea when they were caught in a storm.
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φοβούμενοί τε μή που κατὰ τραχεῖς τόπους [LM] ἐκπέσωμεν ἐκ πρύμνης ῥίψαντες ἀγκύρας τέσσαρας.
Fearing that we might run aground against the rocks [LM], they dropped four anchors from the stern (Acts 27:29).
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Consider the following ex.'s, for ἐπί and κατά.
καὶ ἔλαβεν Σαοὺλ [TR] τὴν ῥομφαίαν καὶ ἐπέπεσεν ἐπʼ αὐτήν [LM].
Saul [TR] took his sword and fell on it [LM] (LXX 1 Chronicles 10:4).
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Maybe you're not cognizant of gravity, but as soon as you drop something you note its effects (Johnson 1987, 42). In semantics, force dynamics refers to the interaction of forces, counterforces, & causal relations. Let's talk about the force-dynamic aspects of Greek prepositions ἐπί and κατά. 2/#