Research & an open notebookKathmandu, Nepal ↗

Sambit Rimal.

Graduate student in linguistics, working across psycholinguistics and Science and Technology Studies.

Currently

I study how language demands shape cognitive processing as it unfolds over time in multilingual speakers.

My STS work looks at the infrastructures and improvisations through which cognitive science research becomes possible in Nepal.

What I’m working on Explore my notes

If I had to describe my orientation:

I meander through questions about language, minds, and meaning.

This site gathers the maps, notes, projects, and occasional attempts at synthesis that accumulate along the way.

Examining the concepts and assumptions I think with.

Fig. 01 Three approaches to my questions

These two passages capture something of that orientation.

“We are not students of some subject matter but students of problems. And problems may cut right across the border of any subject matter or discipline.”

Karl R. Popper Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge

“… we are endowed with the ability to come to know that there are things about it that we don’t know, that is, with the ability to formulate and to entertain questions whose answers we know we do not know.”

Sylvain Bromberger On What We Know We Don’t Know: Explanation, Theory, Linguistics, and How Questions Shape Them (1992)

Themes I return to