Thank you Keith, this is a very elegant statement that has helped me
understand the discourse of this list. I have thought about leaving
the list because of the extended descriptions of 'cups'; now I think
I'll hang on.
Regards
Alun price
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Subject:Cup maker and talk about cup making
Dear all,
Many members of this group treat language as a secondary activity
when talking about a primary activity. That is, 'talk about cup
making' is not needed in order to evidence the making of a cup; one
can simply make a cup. If one were to do a running commentary whilst
making a cup, the commentary might be of interest and it might
illuminate the activity but it would be a secondary activity.
In this sense, language is then better or worse according to its
ability to describe or define the process of making a cup. Making the
cup retains its priority. The process could be describe in any
language, given enough time and struggle. Why, because the making of a
cup is a distinct activity that has been concretised in time and
space. Language can point to the cup.
For others on this list, language is a primary activity. The cups
they make are made of words. They design thoughts in the medium of
words. The cups they make with words are concretised in the words that
make-up the cups. Secondary accounts of these word-cups could be made
in any language but the actual word-cups could not be made in any
other example of language any more than an actual instance of a
physical cup could be made in other materials and be actually
identical.
All this is first year stuff but it keeps emerging in our
disputations.
Keith
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