While Discourses is now usually considered in relation to a tradition of philosophical reflections on induction and metaphysics, most of its tens of thousands of original readers would, Secord suggests, have understood it quite differently, as a guide to conduct.
His piling up of incident and jokes, of comic setpieces and hallucinatory discourses is partly pleasure for its own sake; he loves to fool around, extravagantly indulging his own playfulness.
Maybe it is raining cannot be understood at the level of acceptance: none of the two discourses is ever accepted.
Understanding resource user groups' moral economy discourses is critical given their potential influence on policy choices, and the real political and economic consequences of differential access to resources.
Finally, I argue that an investigation of the dominant language and HL and Discourses is necessary for understanding HL literacy development and identity processes.
This is important, because the most negative of the dominant Anthropocene discourses is one of crisis, disaster, insecurity, and a rapidly destabilizing planet (Clark 2014).
