[MD] Decision

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[Andy]
> why is the intellectual level above the social level?


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The intellectual level evolved from the social level. Pirsig gives the
example of how concepts (4th) evolve from ritual (3rd).
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[Andy]
> Could not a being in isolation evolve intellect?



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Ludwig Wittgenstein offers an (anti-) Private Language Argument:
roughly, using language depends on the ability to distinguish
what is correct from what is in error;
an isolated person cannot distinguish between what is correct
& what they think is correct;
:. an isolated person cannot use language.
Whether this argument is sound & if so, whether it applies to intellect
as well as language, is controversial.
Craig