[MD] subject/object: pragmatism

[ian glendinning]

Matt, you said
"My problem is that I don't think SOM was anything but a set of
metaphors (which is what I think everything linguistic is), and I balk
at the distinction between cultural and intellectual.  The notion that
logic and reason suddenly appeared on the playing field of humanity
around the time of Greece, or around any time for that matter, is a
myth, created in the West to make the West look cooler.  Cultures do
it all the time to make their innovations look like the culmination of
humanity."

That's pretty much how I see it. Cultures decide what they consider to
be "intellectual" - the pinnacle of sophistication in reasoning "in
our time".

Regards
Ian