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From: "david.bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Lawrence Upton" <[log in to unmask]>;
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Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 12:23 AM
Subject: Re: connection
You could be right, David, you could be right, but
English Civil War & classical greeks... Neither exactly neolithic so I'll
pass them by
re our hypothetical
> Neolithics, I'd suggest that they were just as capable of the same
> conceptual range as we are,
capable?
had the same potential for - QED
> But I think it's fairly sure to say the basic drives of your average
> Stone-Ager would have been akin to ours, the expression, because of the
> difference of material culture, would have been different, but not the
what
> lay behind it.
This business of expression - your postulating some mode of thought that is
separable from its expression are you?
Urges are quite different to concepts
At this moment I am aware of a number of urges that make few conceptual
demands on me but are rather important to me
L
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