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Hello there and welcome to Contrived Cognitions. After a few fits and starts, it looks like all is ready for this show to get off the road. Now you might be asking yourself, “What the hell, exactly, is Contrived Cognitions, anyway?” Great question, and I’m glad you asked! Like most anything, there’s a short answer and a long answer. For the shorter explanation, let’s take a look at the old dictionary…
contrive –verb
1. to plan with ingenuity; devise; invent.
2. to plot (evil, treachery, etc.).
cognition -noun
1. The mental process of knowing, including aspects such as awareness, perception, reasoning, and judgment.
2. That which comes to be known, as through perception, reasoning, or intuition; knowledge.
Now, taken together, you might come to the conclusion that this means I think before I speak. Or something. You’d be wrong. Which is why - especially with a language like English - it’s generally not a good idea to look up definitions in the dictionary and string them together.
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