#predication

Didn't expect Cookie Run Kingdom to eventually plan out a concept for seven holy angel cookies for an upcoming update in the near future 🎀🪽

Yes, I felt like showcasing Mango Cookie again for this post 🎀

Given how Fontaine is just around the corner, Ive made a Bingo card with some of my ✨Predictions✨

The public character of predication is brought out by the Latin etymology of the term. The word praedicare, which means "to make known, proclaim, declare," is made up of the adverb or preposition prae, "before, in the face of, in view of," and the verb dicare, "to show, to indicate." To predicate is to let something show up before an audience, and when this is done, as it normally is, in the medium of words, it is to speak out about something "before" others.

The term predicare can also mean to mention something in a special way, and so the modern term predicate can also mean an honorable mention, as in the German, when a vintage wine is dubbed "Qualitätswein mit Prädikat." In this spirit, we might wish to say of someone that he has "gotten his predicate" when he has become notorious for having done something spectacular, whether grand or foolish. Displays like these do not occur in solitude.

Hengeveld, Kees (1992). Non-verbal predication: Theory, typology, diachrony. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

- kangtae probably first handedly knew about juri’s ‘fakeness’ before i’m guessing? 

- juri and moon young will eventually reconcile 

- jea su will meet moon young and they may be unexpectedly friends

“It’s a muggy day.” Here we perceive the day as muggy; perhaps the humidity is high, the breeze nonexistent, and the temperature immoderate. We see all these things as together comprising the mugginess of a muggy day. Speech allows us to express the as of experience according to the is of speech. Taking the day as muggy enables us to express the fact that the day is muggy.

Typically, language and experience work in tandem. It’s hard for us to experience what has not already been put into words, and it is hard to express an experience for the first time. The poet is one practiced in the extraordinary art of expanding the circle of language and experience. Gerard Manley Hopkins, for example, looks out at the same world we see but invites us to understand it anew, to see it as manifesting what he calls “pied beauty.” The first stanza of his poem by that name reads as follows:

Glory be to God for dappled things –   For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;      For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;   Landscape plotted and pieced – fold, fallow, and plough;      And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim. 

Hopkins invites us to see the sky, a cow, trout, finches, landscapes, and tools as manifestations of a single phenomenon, piedness. Further, he wants us to see piedness as something beautiful. Hopkins calls attention to the beauty of complex contrasts, something that shows up naturally enough in our experience, but something that it nevertheless takes a poet to highlight and name. As a result of his poetry, the beauty of what is “counter, original, spare, strange” can now show up for us more readily and explicitly when we look at things. Thereafter we can look out an airplane window at a patchwork of fields down below and register them as being beautiful in their piedness. That is, thanks to Hopkins we can now better see things as instances of piedness and see piedness as something that is beautiful. Poets give us words to see something in a new way; they unlock a further as latent in the world of experience. In doing so they make available to the rest of us a richer way of understanding and speaking about experience.