Dear Erik and Klaus,
I'm aware some people look inside themselves and all they see is language.
Perhaps some people do everything through language.
Certainly some people claim they do everything through language.
I've also read some people say they do their designing visually.
Some of us do not use language for everything.
We can stop using language like stopping using 'thinking'.
That means that language isn't a necessary and sufficient component of
designing.
It means, epistemologically, it doesn't make sense to make language the
essential core of theories of design.
An alternative - perhaps this would satisfy you - is to say that language is
the basis for designing for those for whom language is the basis for their
designing: others not.
Best wishes,
Terry
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Erik:
Dear Klaus,
Thanks for a great post. I agree with your view on language.
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