Symmetra is a Support character who capitalizes on her mobility and defense. Her skills allow her to lock down on a specific location and buff allies with a small shield. Her ultimate allows people to immediately teleport from their respawn location back into battle. Symmetra's downside is her inability to heal, which positions her as a difficult and highly specialized character.


Philology Lecture in Auckland

There's a plenty of livestreming Auckland going around. Most of it though is done either in Snapchat or in Messenger's My Day. Live streaming has become a perplexing reflection on human vanity in most cases, but is also a breakthrough in media reporting and the sharing of information—so thank god for livestreaming.

On a lecture in Philology, for instance, the following presentation was live streamed by a classmate to us. Pretty handy!

"Language is fundamentally metaphorical."

I found the statement best explained through Jacque Derrida's concept of "Différance", and more extensively on his work, Of Grammatology. Let's start by Derrida's notion of the philosophy of the present, in which presence, by him, is an assumption of immediacy. This immediate contact was sought by phenomenologists and positivists when they tried to make sensory experiences the bedrock of knowledge and language.

A good analogy would be the word red and the sensory experience of sight and color that it brings about when spoken. In the philosophy of the present, the immediacy of the experience is brought about by the initial experience of specific reactive cells in the retina reacting to specific wavelength of light. However, red' may also pertain to other experiences possible of the color, both imaginary and real, that can't be associated fully to the denotative meaning of the word e.g. association to anger, or love. Most philosophers, in order to establish certainty, have anchored language and knowledge to an instant of direct contact, facilitated by the senses.

Derrida, however, points out the gap between reality and experience, particularly in our usage of language. On the concept of "Différance", he quotes de Saussure, who wrote that in language there can only be differences. More important, a difference usually pertains to positive terms where the difference is set up, but there are only differences absent of positive terms in language.

Derrida concretizes the point that meaning isn't in the signifier itself, but that it only exists in a network, in relation to other things. Différance comes before being. I think, therefore, that this, paired with the uncertainty of direct contact and experience, summarizes what he meant of the statement "language is fundamentally metaphorical".


Pillow Block Bearing Sizes and Corresponding Applications

If you want to know what the different pillow block bearings sizes are and what they're for, then you've come to the right place. Below are the various sizes for pillow blocks and their corresponding applications:

UCP201-12MM

UCP201-15MM contains a mix of an anti-rotation device and cast iron pillow with self-aligning capabilities and a set of chrome steel score inserted bearing a singer seal design. This unit is a pillow block bearing with two set screws and a n iron unit with the base-center height and a grease fitting.

This is commonly used in automotive, construction, manufacturing equipment, agriculture, IVAC, Feed Mill, and Economical housed solution, Sporting, Consumer Goods, Conveyer, Farming Machinery, and Fan Assembles.

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