[MD] Intellectual Level

[MarshaV]

On Dec 30, 2010, at 12:33 PM, Platt Holden wrote:

> 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. .
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Hi Platt,  

I know.  It's so ingrained and habitual it is almost impossible to see it.  My 
second realization on this subject came when my grandson was very small 
and just learning his first words.  He was so sweet.  I took him outside on a 
beautiful summer day to introduce him to his yard.  "These are flowers.
These are leaves.  This is a branch.  This is a tree trunk.  And this whole big 
thing is a tree.  And there's another."  OMG!  I was indoctrinating him into our 
subject-object world view.   Will I ever have the chance to put him and all 
these things back together again?  

Humpty Dumpty. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. 
All the king's horses and all the king's men, Couldn't put Humpty back together 
again.


Marsha 
 
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