What exactly is the evidence that the Secret uses to claim that thoughts are “atomic”? I can’t reconcile that with the common writing advice that a sentence should contain only a single thought.
“A sentence should contain a complete thought.”[1]
“One thought per sentence. Readers only process one thought at a time.”[2]
“The point of a sentence is to communicate a thought—that’s basically what a sentence is, a complete thought.”[4]
Some even suggest that only one thought should be expressed in an entire paragraph.
Even looking at a simple sentence like “The Cat is Sleeping” I’m not sure how this could be encoded in a single atom in the mind—because it requires a knowledge of what a cat is, what sleeping is, and how to perform the Categories denoted by “the” and the coupla. Most thoughts are more complex.
What, then, exactly constitutes a thought? Not in the materialist sense, but in the phenomenological sense. At what point would a sentence contain two thoughts rather than one?
What exactly is the evidence that the Secret uses to claim that thoughts are “atomic”?
I can’t reconcile that with the common writing advice that a sentence should contain only a single thought.
Some even suggest that only one thought should be expressed in an entire paragraph.
Even looking at a simple sentence like “The Cat is Sleeping” I’m not sure how this could be encoded in a single atom in the mind—because it requires a knowledge of what a cat is, what sleeping is, and how to perform the Categories denoted by “the” and the coupla. Most thoughts are more complex.
What, then, exactly constitutes a thought? Not in the materialist sense, but in the phenomenological sense. At what point would a sentence contain two thoughts rather than one?
http://www.dailywritingtips.com/simple-sentences-period/
https://advicetowriters.com/advice/2016/6/16/one-thought-per-sentence.html but also https://writingscientist.com/sentence-structure/
https://arc.educationapps.vic.gov.au/learning/sites/english-literacy-skills-lesson-plans/2535/A-sentence-is-a-complete-thought
https://www.millersbookreview.com/p/how-long-should-this-sentence-be