Aug 18, 2009 04:23
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English term

unarticulated

English Social Sciences Philosophy
Excising earlier hyper-sexualized models of coffee house culture is an important, though unarticulated, part of this sanitation process.
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Discussion

Soledad Caño Aug 18, 2009:
Language and Thought Hi, again Kim. I suppose Mark will have to decide when he reads the sentence in context if this part of the process has not been expressed or it has not been analyzed (and I suggest that he looks at the definition of unarticulated at Merriam-Webster) but to continue with our discussion, I believe thinking takes precedence over language although I concede that you need language to articulate your thoughts, so it all comes down to the problem of language vs. thought.
Regards.
Kim Metzger Aug 18, 2009:
Verb functioning as an adjective In this sentence, ‘unarticulated’ is a past participial adjective, i.e. a verb functioning as an adjective. Unarticulated = not articulated. To articulate: to express, to put in words
Soledad Caño Aug 18, 2009:
I believe Mark's text refers to the fact that though it is an important part of the process it has not been sufficiently analyzed. "Unarticulated" is quite a common adjective in philosophy, semantics and logic. See for example:
Bourdieu: critical perspectives "Wittgenstein stresses the unarticulated - at some points even ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=0226090930...
Contextualism in philosophy: knowledge, meaning, and truth -
by Georg Peter - 2005 - Philosophy - 402 pages
The term 'unarticulated constituent' was introduced by John Perry (1986: 206), although a related idea can be found in Frege.18 Perry was followed by Mark ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=0199267405...

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unsaid, unspoken

i.e. not explicitly mentioned

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Note added at 1 hr (2009-08-18 05:55:18 GMT)
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You can understand why some would not like to talk openly about the subject.
Peer comment(s):

agree Demi Ebrite
1 min
agree William [Bill] Gray
1 min
agree Olga B
4 mins
agree lorenab23
21 mins
agree K Donnelly
1 hr
agree Kim Metzger
1 hr
agree Rolf Keiser
3 hrs
agree Andy Carr : possibly even unacknowledged
4 hrs
agree Phong Le
7 hrs
agree humbird
9 hrs
agree Polangmar
9 hrs
agree jccantrell
10 hrs
agree Patricia Townshend (X)
11 hrs
agree Jenni Lukac (X)
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agree George C.
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not carefully reasoned or analyzed


Compare "inarticulate" (not voiced or expressed) with "unarticulated" = not carefully reasoned or analyzed
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unarticulated
Peer comment(s):

disagree Kim Metzger : To articulate: to give clear and effective utterance to : put into words http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/articulate / unarticulated means not articulated, not expressed. Nothing to do with inarticulate.
1 hr
Sorry, Kim, but the opposite of articulate is INarticulate, that's the whole point of the question AND my answer....
agree Judith Hehir : The majority is misguided here. This is the correct answer.
9 hrs
Thank you, Judith
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unrecognized / unacknowledged

There isn't a lot of context here, but it seems to me that "unarticulated" might have the sense here not only of "unexpressed", but of "lack of awareness"--or at least "lack of explicit awareness."

This is a shade of difference of meaning--but perhaps an important one in the present context.
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