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Walter Ong
Ong's claim that "writing restructures consciousness"1. Walter Ong was a Jesuit and McLuhan's MA student at Saint Louis University.
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Ong's claim that "writing restructures consciousness"
The Examined Cognition: Substrates of Metacognition and Meth
“Ong's claim that "writing restructures consciousness"”
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Walter Ong was a Jesuit and McLuhan's MA student at Saint Louis University
Ong's framework has been productively extended
The Acoustic Return: A Research Pass on McLuhan, Voice Inter
“Ong's framework has been productively extended:”
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These are things people say about Walter Ong that aren't settled fact — each one attributed to who's actually claiming it, so a claim never quietly passes as established just because it showed up in a document. Weigh it yourself.
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"the interiority and analytic separation that allow Schwitzgebel to even pose the question "how reliable is introspection?" are themselves artifacts of the alphabetic medium"
Asserted by Walter Ong · stance: pro
Not yet independently weighed — one source's claim, unconfirmed elsewhere.
The Examined Cognition: Substrates of Metacognition and Meth ↗
Disputed
"Ong's concept of secondary orality is a sharper formulation than McLuhan's retribalization"
Asserted by Walter Ong · stance: pro
Not yet independently weighed — one source's claim, unconfirmed elsewhere.
# A Comprehensive Map of Marshall McLuhan's Thought: Concept ↗
Disputed
"Ong's coinage itself has been historicized"
Unattributed assertion · stance: neutral
The evidence on file mostly supports this, but it's still someone's claim, not a settled fact.
The Acoustic Return: A Research Pass on McLuhan, Voice Inter ↗
Disputed
"a fourth category not anticipated by Ong"
Unattributed assertion · stance: neutral
Not yet independently weighed — one source's claim, unconfirmed elsewhere.
The Acoustic Return: A Research Pass on McLuhan, Voice Inter ↗
Disputed
"The AI voice agent is categorically different in at least four respects"
Unattributed assertion · stance: pro
Not yet independently weighed — one source's claim, unconfirmed elsewhere.
The Acoustic Return: A Research Pass on McLuhan, Voice Inter ↗
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1958
1958
Publication of Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue