I sent this message in reponse to Gil Regev. Somehow it got cut out:
In response:
Loved your comment, Gil, and the humor that went with it. To be frank, I
am not pleased with myself for having posted that item
yesterday. It is so much easier to criticize than to build, isn't it? On
the other hand, it may have been well I did it because of the central
statement that the same message may very well fit one person's
experience and not another.
I found that, as far as I went in analyzing a document, that line after
line appeared to be in conflict with how I sense things about
language. That, basically, is what I wanted to bring out. I was groping
for a mental entry into the argument presented and thus far failed
to make it. I think that it is that conflict which caused me to revolt.
I have difficulty perceiving language as some sort of a bitmap because
its sources, thoughts, are not akin to bitmaps. They seem more
like jpeg to me -- highly dynamic jpegs, that is. Putting thought into
words cannot be, I believe, an accurate one-to-one process
because the very uttering and structuring of words feeds back into
thought, thereby altering it, and because language is less dynamic
than thought. There is a freezing out process. Does this make language
more tractably atomic than thought? And will it have an
atomizing (structuring) effect on the thinking of the listener? And, if
so, how effective, and for how long?
As you can see, I am quite lost in this subject, as one may be sure are
others. I guess, we just have to keep on trying as much as
circumstances permit....
H.
Gil Regev wrote:
To build on what Jack and Henry have been saying, in Women, Fire, and
Dangerous Things, etc, etc
The lesson: THERE IS ALWAYS ANOTHER POINT OF VIEW, and just because
another person doesn't see things the same way or understand the same
way that you do, does not mean that it's wrong......
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