Thank you all!!!! :)
--- David Haley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thanks Jill for moving us out of Ancient Greece. It
> is also worth
> having a look at Lakoff and Johnson's Philosophy in
> the Flesh with
> regard to the way Western philosophy has been based
> on metaphor and
> myth since the pre-Socratics. Quantum theory and
> second generation
> cognitive science have blow analytical philosophy
> apart.
> Unfortunately, our education, economic and political
> systems refuse
> to move on.
>
> Regards
> David
>
> On 30 Aug 2006, at 21:11, Jill wrote:
>
> > Thankyou Gary - the attempt to find a perfect
> definiton of drawing has
> > involved some crazy logic.
> >
> > However the notion that definitions shouldn't be
> flexible seems to
> > suggest
> > that they should be inflexible. As Raymond
> Williams showed in
> > Keywords,
> > language is in a state of flux, changing according
> to context,
> > history and
> > use. I think that the flaw in this discussion is
> in the attempt to
> > come
> > up with an absolute "improved" definiton of
> drawing that fits all
> > uses!
> > Language doesn't work that way.
> >
> > Jill
>
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