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Tractatus Rationis Ordinarius Linguae Logevitus
troll 1 (trõl). v.t. to roll or reel out (a song) in a
careless manner; to fish (water) by trailing or
spinning a revolving bait, esp. behind a boat.
v.i. to fish thus; to sing in a free and easy way.
troll 2 (trõl). n. a giant or giantess in Scandana-
vian mythology, endowed with supernatural
powers; later, a familiar but impish dwarf.
troll 1 (trõl). v.t. to roll or reel out (a song) in a
careless manner; to fish (water) by trailing or
spinning a revolving bait, esp. behind a boat.
v.i. to fish thus; to sing in a free and easy way.
troll 2 (trõl). n. a giant or giantess in Scandana-
vian mythology, endowed with supernatural
powers; later, a familiar but impish dwarf.
1
- The troll is all that is the case.
- The troll is essentially a curiosity in the history of ideas.
- The troll is a curious collection of questionable evidence and flagrant inconsistencies.
- The testimony of the troll may be called (under one of many conceptual labels) a fact.
- The philosopher is a creative destroyer of categories.
2
- Analysis is the chosen weapon of philosophers
- Analysis is the identification of language games
- Analysis is itself a language game.
- Synthesis is an alchemical combination of signs.
- A game may itself be sign of something; a sign may indicate a switch between games.
- A deployment of signs for eg flagging can become a language game in its own right.
- Any language game may reinvent its own rules.
- The troll is essentially philosopher, of language.
- In logical space redefined everything is possible.
- The logical space of cyberspace is morals.
3
- In cyberspace the world is an empty dream.
- In cyberspace nobody can hear you scream.
4
- Speech had become more like writing: let writings become more like speech.
- 4.1 The troll always speaks his mind. The troll speaks for everyone – and noone.
- Incitement cannot be imagined without some power relation. Between texts?
- We bend words to our will, where this is collective. This is our objective (ism)
- The will demands our honesty and incoherence. A troll exploits our patience.
5
- Censorship is never allowed in nature, nor should be in language.
- Privacy is secrecy, and as such is impossible. Hypocrisy is an involuntary honesty.
- Dishonesty shows itself up in our honesty: Our insincerity is authentic.
- The troll strives to be the best kind of enemy and the worst kind of friend.
- The violence of the thought preserves the dexterity of the language.
- Supporting terror is the judgement of a hasty and faulty translation.
- Understanding a serial killer is like flicking through Nietzsche: A sad adventure.
- The most terrifying and offensive thing about serial trolls is their lack of disguise..
6
- The troll really employs a new form of reductio ad absurdum in the field of morals.
- He sacrifices his reputation to the causes of conceptual, and socio-moral, evolution.
- Every troll is the last individual in philosophical history. The troll is a problem case
- A troll respects no particular boundary. But he has respect for the idea of boundary.
- A good troll is a master of ill timing and coincidence.
- A very good troll will also have mastered conscience.
7
- Referring to the time of death we say: our word is dead.
- What a man cannot subvert or create, he necessarily destroys. (Including woman).
- [NB. in unmarked propositions the game of language dies].