[MD] Intellectual Level

[Platt Holden]

On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 10:17 AM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:

>
> On Dec 30, 2010, at 9:48 AM, ARLO J BENSINGER JR wrote:
>
> > [Marsha]
> > Language, with it grammatical rules, has most certainly evolved to
> reflect
> > humanities subject-object metaphysical underpinning.
> >
> > [Arlo]
> > "Grammatical rules" have nothing to do with SOM. Does Western language
> reveal
> > an SOM-bias in areas where SOM is the dominant intellectual pattern?
> Sure. But
> > "language" itself is not "SOM".
> >
>
> Marsha:
> Nowhere did I explicitly state that language was SOM.  It does, though,
> implicitly
> suggest a subject-object metaphysical underpinning.
>

Platt
Right. The SOM premise is self-evident and thus invisible to the
intellectual level of patterns. .