Pin Ball Logic is the way I’ve been describing series of random associations that end up meaning something new or throwing a fresh light on something.
Some people are really good at creating analogies.
Not ‘a’ leads to ‘b’ leads to ‘c’, but ‘a’ leads to ‘copper’ leads to ‘4’…Ding, ding, ding, ding, where ‘4’ is something useful.
Pin Ball Logic is not the same as Symbolic Logic, where something makes sense because it is a symbol, or marker for something else. Like the way that $18 is given for a gift, because 18 symbolizes life in the Hebrew way of representing numbers or Red for luck in Chinese culture. (anyone know why?)
I suspect that this is how people get interested in semiotics. The friend who can put together far flung analogies can also speak intelligently about semiotics. I use it, do it, but don’t have the language to explain it. So there is probably some erudite terms for describing pinball and symbolic logic, I just don’t know them….yet.
se·mi·ot·ics [ smee óttiks, sèmmee óttiks ]
noun
Definitions:
1. study of signs: the study of signs and symbols of all kinds, what they mean, and how they relate to the things or ideas they refer to
The Art for Today is: Semiotics
posted by the other Joan @ 8:03 AM
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