The idea
From sound to meaning
And from distraction to study. The apps rest on three old lines and climb one ladder, from the first sound to what a sentence does.
Three old lines
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to know
“All men by nature desire to know.”
Aristotle, Metaphysics I.1
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mimēsis
“…through imitation he learns his earliest lessons.”
Aristotle, Poetics 4
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studiositas
not
curiositasThe steady desire to learn, set against attention scattered on whatever passes by.
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae II-II, 166–167
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the time
“Redeeming the time…” — the hours that scrolling takes, given back to learning.
Ephesians 5:16
The ladder, Α to Ω
Six steps, each standing on the one below. They are Sentio’s levels, and the order in which the family is met. Semantica and Pragma, coming soon, go deeper into the last ones.
- phōnēthe sounda vowel, a consonant
- syllabēthe syllableonset, vowel, coda
- lexisthe word and its stressPHOtograph, phoTOgraphy
- sēmaa sound that changes the meaningship / sheep, REcord / reCORDdeeper
- logosthe sentenceits rhythm, its reduced syllablesdeeper
- pragmathe tune that changes what it doesReally. ↘ Really? ↗deeper
Where the names come from
- NeuroPhoneticsneuron + phōnēthe nerve and the voice: the sound heard, felt and spoken.
- Redeem TimeEphesians 5:16“redeeming the time”.
- Mimesismimēsisimitation.
- Phonemaphōnēmaa sound spoken.
- Lectiolectioreading, after lectio divina: slow reading, in small parts.
- Antiphonantiphōnonsounding back: one voice calls, the others answer.
- SentiosentioI perceive, I feel.
- Semanticasēmaa sign: what a word means.
- Pragmapragmaa deed, a thing done: what a sentence does.
The motto is the method: See the sound. Feel the vibrations. Say it. The apps →