fil,
i too can say that i solve many of the abstract problems i am dealing with
visually, sometimes conceptualizing them by drawing on paper, sometimes by
observing analogies in my environment that others don't.
how YOU and I do things has little to do with what WE call design, discuss,
theorize, and email about. terry confuses, and you seem to chime into the
confusion between your intraspychic activity and how you conceptualize it in
accounts of it to others and negotiate with others the meaning of such words
as design.
klaus
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Hi all.
I'm one of those people Terry mentions who thinks visually. Indeed, I've
found that since I recognized about myself, I find I'm not only able to
think better, but I can also /write/ better, because now I know that I use
language only to communicate the picture in my head.
I don't deny that many - perhaps most - people think with language. But
that there exist others (like me) tells me that there's something more
fundamental, which underlies both language and visualization as thinking
modes.
Cheers.
Fil
2009/9/24 Terence Love <[log in to unmask]>
> 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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