dear terry,
you said:
"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."
in this statement you commit yourself to a conception of language as a tool.
tools are separate from their user and their results. i am suggesting that
language is part of who we are, and by "we" i don't mean "in general" but
"being with each other."
yes, you can stop talking. but only if you talked before, if you had been
socialized. those who have stopped talking are dead, usually not by
choice.. languaging is what we (our living bodies) do when living together.
regarding "it doesn't make sense to make language the essential core of
theories of design," i challenged you before to show me a theory of design
-- any theory -- that doesn't use words, drawings, or other means of
communication. in the absence of such a demonstration, you risk the
possibility that the sentence you offered as a conclusion doesn't make sense
to a lot of english speakers.
good luck
klaus
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