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15:5015:50, 28 April 2026 Why.Disclosing-the-commons (hist | edit) [4,318 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=Why}} <h1>Disclosing the commons</h1> <p>During the modern era, material means of production and consumption worked best using principles of enclosure, figuratively and literally fencing people, places, and things off to exploit their potentialities in a concentrated, well-organized manner. A post-modern era is beginning in which digital means to realize our hopes and purposes are complementing the familiar material ones with different constraints...")
15:4815:48, 28 April 2026 Why.Forming ourselves (hist | edit) [2,781 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=Why}} <h1>To form ourselves</h1> <p>On {{apts}}, what do we mean by <i>to form ourselves</i>? We all pretty much grow up in similar ways. We develop, start to toddle and talk, play, go to school and learn similar stuff, better or worse. At a certain point, we decide our parents didn't know everything and then soon enough learn that we don't either. It all seems to happen in a flow of experience that mostly comes to us by surprise. Suddenly we've go...")
15:4615:46, 28 April 2026 Why (hist | edit) [5,091 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=Why}} <h1><i>Why?</i> directs and motivates effort</h1> {{AR}} <p>Asking why we study engages us in thinking, but we too easily short-circuit the thinking asking why in the form of <i>Why bother?</i>, why should we take the trouble to study when we feel so busy, so pressed by many cares, just wanting some relaxation, escape, a "good time." </p> <p><i>Why bother?</i> preempts <i>asking why</i>. It pretends that we don't do these activities and may...")
15:4315:43, 28 April 2026 Where/Library listing (hist | edit) [9,429 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=Where}} <h1>Our library</h1> <p>{{apts}} is not a library, but we have one. It contains many of the resources with which we study. Currently it holds a sparse, initial collection as part of developing our prototype. It lacks lots that should be there, includes perhaps some things that should not be there, and what's there tilts perilously towards the work of dead, white, Western males. And further, we've been acquiri...")
15:4215:42, 28 April 2026 Where/Our library (hist | edit) [5,201 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=Where}} <h1>Our library</h1> <p>{{apts}} is not a library, but we have one. It contains many of the resources with which we study. Currently it holds a sparse, initial collection as part of developing our prototype. It lacks lots that should be there, includes perhaps some things that should not be there, and what's there tilts perilously towards the work of dead, white, Western males. And further, we've been acquiri...")
15:4115:41, 28 April 2026 Where/Studios (hist | edit) [6,232 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=Where}} <h1>Studios</h1> <!-- <h2>Notes for introductory page</h2> <p class="V">An encyclopedia compiles impersonal knowledge about many topics. Hence, readers want a sense of authority in its treatments, which gets established through the frequent citation of sound sources. ''A Place to Study'' is NOT and encyclopedia.</p> <p class="R">''A Place to Study'' fosters the autonomous judgment , especially about self-formation and liberal learning, by i...")
15:4015:40, 28 April 2026 Where/Study skills (hist | edit) [1,940 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=Where}} <h1>Study skills</h1> <p>Let's concentrate on the basics, the study skills that each and all have acquired. We can speak. We read and write. We use our senses, especially seeing and hearing, to perceive what's around us. Why should we stop now to study these? We've used them to come this far. Why not keep at matters where we're more thoroughly ignorant?</p> <p>Life takes place 24/7. We are not born with an empty slate, so many blank spaces...")
15:3915:39, 28 April 2026 Where/Montaigne1 (hist | edit) [11,564 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ __NOTITLE__ {{Setup|tick=Where}} <h1> </h1> <p>'''Talk teasers:'''<p><h1 style="text-align: center;">from Montaigne's study</h1> <p style="padding-right: 1em; font-weight: 700; text-indent: 0;">Here's a thought. Consider it. If you find parts that make no sense, try to make sense of them. Look things up. Understand the passage. Then tell yourself and others what you think in response. If that's, "Eh....," that's fine, pass over it — the world holds many...")
15:3815:38, 28 April 2026 Where/Goethe (hist | edit) [3,423 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=Where}} <p>Quick thoughts:</p> <h1 style="text-align: center;">Goethe said,....</i></h1> <p style="padding: 1em; font-weight: 700; text-indent: 0;">Here's a thought. Consider it. If you find parts that make no sense, try to make sense of them. Look things up. Understand the passage. Then tell yourself and others what you think in response. If that's, "meh...," that's fine, pass over it — the world holds many thoughts. If you have a response, gr...")
15:3715:37, 28 April 2026 Where/Key quotes (hist | edit) [3,427 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=Where}} <p>Quick thoughts:</p> <h1 style="text-align: center;">Quotations to ponder</i></h1> <p style="padding: 1em; font-weight: 700; text-indent: 0;">Here's a thought. Consider it. If you find parts that make no sense, try to make sense of them. Look things up. Understand the passage. Then tell yourself and others what you think in response. If that's, "meh...," that's fine, pass over it — the world holds many thoughts. If you have a response...")
15:3615:36, 28 April 2026 Where/Quick study (hist | edit) [408 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=Where}} <h1>Quick thoughts</h1> <p style="margin: 0 0 0 10%; padding-right: 10em; font-weight: 700; text-indent: 0;">Yes, we take things seriously. But time's short. Here's some quick thoughts to grab on the run. What's your response? </p> <hr> * Quotations to ponder * Goethe said.... * Maxims from Montaigne's study ")
15:3415:34, 28 April 2026 Where/Study pages (hist | edit) [5,503 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=Where}} <h1>Study pages</h1> <blockquote>Critics obsessed with [Milton's] great reputation and great scholarship tend to look exclusively to literary sources for his ideas. . . . My not very daring suggestion is that Milton got his ideas not only from books but also by talking to his contemporaries.<ref>Christopher Hill. <i>Milton and the English Reolution</i> (New York: The Viking Press, 1977) p. 5.</ref></blockquote> <p>We use <i>study pages</i...")

21:1021:10, 27 April 2026 Where/Study groups (hist | edit) [16,269 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=Where}} <h1>Study groups</h1> <blockquote><i>We start with a proposal for a study group on Michel de Montaigne as an initial write-up of an effort to prototype a study group on {{apts}}. As we gain experience with such prototypes, we will draft a general discussion about forming our study groups.<br>Montaigne study group 01/17/2022 to 03/21/2022.</span></i></blockquote> <p>Study groups occur often in instructional setting...")
21:0921:09, 27 April 2026 Where/Study nodes (hist | edit) [51 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=Where}} <h1>Study Nodes</h1>")
21:0821:08, 27 April 2026 Where/Our landmarks (hist | edit) [5,273 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=Where}} <h1>Our landmarks</h1> <div style="float: left; max-width: 200px; margin: 1em 1em 1em 0;">200px<p class="s1 noind>"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she / With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, / The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. / Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, / I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"<re...")
21:0421:04, 27 April 2026 Where (hist | edit) [4,361 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=Where}} <h1><i>Where?</i> situates lived experience</h1> {{AR}} <p>Actually, <i>Where?</i> includes <i>When?</i> and <i>When?</i> includes <i>Where?</i> Combined, they situate lived experience, what was, is, or will be taking place. Verbs of actualizing — to <i>happen</i>, to <i>take place</i>, to <i>become</i>, and all their synonyms — have greater significance for thinking and acting than the verbs of being — to <i>be</i> — however overus...")
21:0221:02, 27 April 2026 How/We speak (hist | edit) [56 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=How}} <h1>We speak and write</h1>")
21:0121:01, 27 April 2026 How/We speculate (hist | edit) [61 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=How}} <h1>We speculate and wonder</h1>")
21:0021:00, 27 April 2026 How/We concentrate (hist | edit) [492 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=How}} <h1>We concentrate</h1> <p>When I contemplate the digital commons, I see a pullulating growth of initiatives, many commercial, many institutional, many governmental, and some autonomous, growing for their own sake. The situation creates a great clamor for attention. We take a first step in developing our ability to concentrate by ignoring all that.</p> <p>As an an unenclosed initiative in the digital commons, {{apts}} has no need to grow a...")
20:5920:59, 27 April 2026 How/We associate (hist | edit) [1,821 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=How}} <h1>We associate</h1> <p>In much of life, we habitually project boundaries onto the world and our lives in it and stuff objects and our experience with them into these containers. Similarities and identities then become what matters. These take on various auras of valence and significance. It all serves as an economical way to respond to the complexities of experience. Economical, but not necessarily conducive to clear thinking and judging.</...")
20:5620:56, 27 April 2026 How/We select (hist | edit) [2,298 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=How}} <h1>We browse & we reap</h1> <p>OK, ask it—why say we browse in discussing how we study? Isn't browsing sort of casual; studying really serious. According to Google, to browse means to "survey goods for sale in a leisurely and casual way" and to study means to "devote time and attention to acquiring knowledge on (an academic subject), especially by means of books," and somewhat more generally to "look at closely in order to observe or read...")
20:5520:55, 27 April 2026 How/We browse (hist | edit) [3,791 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=How}} <h1>We browse & we reap</h1> <p>OK, ask it—why say we browse in discussing how we study? Isn't browsing sort of casual; studying really serious. According to Google, to browse means to "survey goods for sale in a leisurely and casual way" and to study means to "devote time and attention to acquiring knowledge on (an academic subject), especially by means of books," and somewhat more generally to "look at closely in order to observe or read...")
20:5320:53, 27 April 2026 How (hist | edit) [1,291 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=How}} <h1><i>How?</i> joins thinking and acting</h1> {{AR}} * <i>What?</i> leads to the universe of concepts, nouns; * <i>How?</i> describes the working of action, verbs.</p> <p>In this district, we start with the question, <i>How do we study?</i> That leads us to consider a range of activities important in the work of study to which we locate with links to the right. What's unusual about them? In most instructional situations, the question <i>How?...")
18:1418:14, 27 April 2026 What (hist | edit) [10,987 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=What}} <h1>What do we seek by asking <i>What?</i></h1> <div class="outbox"><div class="inbox compact">06/25: Before revising this further, it is important to substantially draft the section on Lifeworlds. Without having drafted it, judging what to deal with in this section (and others as well) will be difficult.</div></div> <p>In asking <i>What?</i>, we seek, not a thing, we seek a concept to enhance our power to think about experience.</p> <...")
18:1118:11, 27 April 2026 Who/Visitors (hist | edit) [3,149 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=Clues}} <h1>Visitors</h1> <p>Everyone begins on {{apts}} as a visitor. The place is an open city inviting you to study through it. As a visitor, you can go where you like — {{apts}} has no private spaces. There's a lot to take in to really know your way around. The place is a place to study in the virtual world, and the actual world doesn't offer too many places to study these days to clue us in about finding our way on our own.</p> <p>A first-...")
18:1018:10, 27 April 2026 Who/Residents (hist | edit) [818 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ __NOTITLE__ {{Setup|tick=Who}} {{Numsoff}} <h1>Residents</h1> <p>Anyone can ask for a free account [once the site opens] and become a resident on {{apts}}. Although free and unencumbered, it comes with rights and responsibilities. Volunteers, that is its residents, construct and maintain {{apts}} and they do so by working collaboratively, among themselves and with visitors, in the spirit of the place, to form themselves and learn liberally within the digital c...")
18:0918:09, 27 April 2026 Who/Masterworkers (hist | edit) [51 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=Who}} <h1>Masterworkers</h1>")
18:0818:08, 27 April 2026 Who/Exemplars (hist | edit) [2,709 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ __NOTITLE__ {{Setup|tick=Who}} <h1>Exemplars</h1> [** A draft to be developed. **] <p>An ''exemplar''—a person who has completed life—receives attention from other persons who are now engaged in their own self-formation. We extract from the life of the exemplar insight, understanding, and inspiration in shaping our own. An exemplar stands before us, not as an object lesson instructing us about some unattainable principle or ideal, but as a complex person o...")
18:0718:07, 27 April 2026 Who/Hidden lives (hist | edit) [3,019 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=Who}} <h1>Hidden lives</h1> <p>At consequential risk, we all rely on celebrity to ease and enliven the burden of judgment. But <i>Fortuna</i> casts celebrity on the wise and the merely fashionable alike, and on others of all sorts: apparatchiks just following orders, provincial political hacks, professional athletic stars rising unpredictably from draft pools.... It brings to power accidental arbiters of truth and justice who can be dangerously arb...")
18:0618:06, 27 April 2026 Who/For persons (hist | edit) [3,149 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=Who}} <h1>For persons</h1> <p>Everyone begins on {{apts}} as a visitor. The place is an open city inviting you to study through it. As a visitor, you can go where you like — {{apts}} has no private spaces. There's a lot to take in to really know your way around. The place is a place to study in the virtual world, and the actual world doesn't offer too many places to study these days to clue us in about finding our way on our own.</p> <p>A first-...")
18:0018:00, 27 April 2026 Who (hist | edit) [6,140 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=Who}} <h1><i>Who?</i> seeks the agent at work</h1> <div class="outbox lefty thin"><div class="inbox compact"> 190px<br><small>Jacob spoke first. "I want to know if my hair is just like yours," he told Mr. Obama.... Mr. Obama replied, "Why don't you touch it and see for yourself?" He lowered his head, level with Ja...")
17:5517:55, 27 April 2026 Lifeworlds (hist | edit) [1,721 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=Lifeworlds}} <h1> </h1> <div class="outbox" style="max-width:400px; margin: 1px auto 1px auto;"><div class="inbox compact">Please note: As a concept, <i>Lifeworld</i> has great importance for the design and development of {{apts}}. We need to put the project in motion, however, in order to work out the modes of interaction between actual persons living and working in different lifeworlds and the resources accessible to them through {{apts}}. This...")
14:1514:15, 27 April 2026 Hello/On commenting (hist | edit) [2,033 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ __NOTITLE__ {{Setup|tick=Hello}} <h1>Work with the NavBlock</h1> <div class="container"><p class="parabox">¶{{#counter:in1}}</p>Don't expect {{apts}} to be encyclopedic, a compendium of knowledge about things. If you're interested in up-to-date knowledge about <i>what something is</i>, look in Wikipedia. Come to {{apts}}, not to know about <i>the world as it is</i>, but to think about how you intend to live in a world imbued with meaning, significance, value,...")
14:1214:12, 27 April 2026 Work with the NavBlock (hist | edit) [2,033 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ __NOTITLE__ {{Setup|tick=Hello}} <h1>Work with the NavBlock</h1> <div class="container"><p class="parabox">¶{{#counter:in1}}</p>Don't expect {{apts}} to be encyclopedic, a compendium of knowledge about things. If you're interested in up-to-date knowledge about <i>what something is</i>, look in Wikipedia. Come to {{apts}}, not to know about <i>the world as it is</i>, but to think about how you intend to live in a world imbued with meaning, significance, value,...")
14:0514:05, 27 April 2026 Hello/We've begun! (hist | edit) [10,798 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ __NOTITLE__ {{Setup|tick=Hello}} {{A-note}} <h1>We've begun!</h1> <h6><b>What's next? That's always the question, an occasion for judgment.</b></h6> <hr> <p>Here's an overview for first-timers of <i>what-happens-where</i>, and for many-timers, too. What we do on {{apts}} differs from what usually happens on websites. We use a clickable map to keep the whole place in mind. Use it to get about and choose where your active study might take place. We describe t...")
14:0414:04, 27 April 2026 Hello/The deal (hist | edit) [7,288 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=Hello}} <h1>Here's the deal! </h1> <div class="compact" style="margin: 0 3em 1em 3em;"> {{Fatboy|boy=<p class="b1">Volunteers <u>build</u> {{apts}} to provide cultural resources to persons seeking self-formation and liberal learning in the digital commons.</p> <p class="b1">Persons freely <u>study</u> with these resources to form what they have to say and do in the context of their lives and their world, seeking to fulfill themselves through their...")
14:0314:03, 27 April 2026 Hello/It's not (hist | edit) [2,456 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ __NOTITLE__ {{Setup|tick=Hello}} {{A-note}} <h1> </h1> 150px|center|What we are not <h1>{{apts}} is NOT . . . .</i></h1> * <i>NOT an encyclopedic project</i>. Like an encyclopedia, {{apts}} consists in part in an extensive collection of culturally valuable assets. But people interact with its collection, not to acquire impersonal knowledge, but to further their self-formation and liberal learning, aspiring to a personal understanding of...")
14:0214:02, 27 April 2026 Hello/Why do we study (hist | edit) [7,030 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ __NOTITLE__ {{Setup|tick=Hello}} {{A-note}} <h1>Why <u>a place</u> to study?</h1>  <p>Don't we get enough education? Most everyone ''has been educated'' in a worldwide system of formal instruction — some to succeed, others to fail. Helping more to succeed in the system and fewer to fail is important, but not the aim in creating {{apts}}.</p> <p>What we get from our...")
14:0014:00, 27 April 2026 Hello/To study (hist | edit) [4,687 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ __NOTITLE__ {{Setup|tick=Hello}} {{A-note}} <h1>Yes! We study.</h1> : From classical Latin, ''studēre''—to strive after, to concentrate on, to support, favor, to apply oneself, to give attention, be eager, be zealous, take pains, be diligent, be busy with, be devoted to. . . . <hr> <div class="outbox lf" style="max-width: 210px;">200px</div> <div style="text-indent: 2em"> <p>Sometimes I feel amazed, working to create {{apts}}...")

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