alison,
Ok, im gonna be careful with this. I have read Wittgenstein plenty and what
he says seems to run in the pattern that I have suggested. Especially
comments such as "Logic is transcendent" and "Logic is not a theory but a
reflexion of the world" (both from Tractatus). This is why I don't quite
understand how you can conceive logic to be only partial to language. Indeed
I believe one the pressing problems in language theory is an understanding
of how an infant can acquire a lanugage at all, since the infant must in
effect do all the learning and "teaching" him or herself. I believe that is
the reason for the search for a Universal Grammar, a fundamental common
mental structure that enables language acquisition. What i have been driving
at is that it is in how we think itself that makes language a necessity.
Granted, this is ambiguous and before I get bombarded for making
"globbledegook" of it all let me clarifiy. Logic is how we reflect the world
in thinking it. That is, since we do not intend our sensations then, in
order to be conscious of what we sense we must think it through to a logical
form (concept). In intending it, at the tail end of our re-cognition of a
sensation, we realize that something is indeed "being seen" (and so forth).
This process necessitates language, in that our thinking must take the form
of symbol. I have a feeling that you will not like this description so I
truly suggest we just drop the topic all together. There really is not a
point in continuing.
sincerely,
d
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 09:19:50 +1100, Poetryetc provides a venue for a
dialogue relating to poetry and poetics wrote:
> >I don't how you conceive logic to be
> >only partial to language.
>
> Read Wittgenstein again, but first take off your egocentric blinkers.
>
> I was simply attempting to say in a few sentences what I thought
> Wittgenstein actually said, as opposed to the gobbledegook you've made of
> him. It wasn't what I said. Give him a call. I'm sure he'd set you
> straight.
>
> Perhaps you could do some reading in contemporary neurology.
>
> I'm out of this.
>
> Alison
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