Status Updates From Manières de Faire des Mondes

this guy ceaselessly talks as if culture or mythology doesn't exist and generally making claims he started the book by proving he knows better than to make them and it's pretty tiresome

Early on I wrote on my index card “who was Ernst Casirer, and how far can I get into ‘Ways of Worldmaking’ without reading about him or knowing? Will Nelson Goodman tell me?”

Evidently I needn’t know much about him, but my book’s previous owner might have had the same question, having underlined a number of Casirer-related details.

Precise writing. Helpful to know the term “Art World” as I read.

"All this is plain enough, yet plainly not enough." (p. 29)

#ways of worldmaking
a) composition and decomposition
b) weighting or emphasis
c) ordering
=> different constructional systems differ in order of derivation
=> while adopting a frame of reference, we adopt a derivational basis
=> periodicity and proximity
=> all measurement is based upon order
d) deletion and supplementation
e) deformation or distortion