[MD] Reductionism

[skutvik at online.no]

Hi John

On 6 July you wrote:

> > [Krimel]
> > > Bo is utterly confused about the relationship of concepts to
> > > percepts. There is not sensible way to understand the claim that
> > > the MoQ is not a set of concepts.

> > Concept=language no?

 
> You never explicitly addressed my simple refutation of your statement,
> using the dictionary.  You can put most concepts into language, sure. 
> And definitely all language is conceptual, that is, composed of or
> related to concepts.  But  the easily demonstrable (from the fact of
> different cultures having differing or even lacking language for the
> same concepts) is  that concepts are the subjective reality and
> language the socially agreed upon rules of communication.  They are
> different.  Not equal.

> Just helpin' out here.

If it's me you speak to I should possibly have put it the other way 
round (language=concepts) the point is that all spoken and written 
language(s) are conceptual. That different languages have different 
terms (a tribe in Amazonas surely has no term for snow) different 
syntax, different grammar, different everything is not important. But 
what you, John, maintain, namely that every "hunch" is a concept - is 
wrong. Emotions are the social level's "expression" and sensations 
are the biological ditto.    

IMO

Bodvar