[MD] [Bulk] Re: Keep on Truckin'

[MarshaV]

On May 11, 2011, at 1:22 PM, Arlo Bensinger wrote:

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> [Marsha]
> Have you lost sight of our language being all about the a subject and a verb acting on a direct or indirect object?
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> [Arlo]
> Language is the symbolic encoding of experience, the mutual sharing of experience. The specific structures it takes of course reveal constraints, but it has also greatly enriched human agency.

[Marsha]
How do you know that the structure of our language has greatly enriched human agency?  Did you use active imagination?  Projection?  Because you thunk it?   


> [Marsha]
> I have not spoken of becoming brain dead, just not elevating language when it is much of the problem.
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> [Arlo]
> I am not "elevating" it either, as I said it is not about glorifying or condemn language (or any "structure"), but to see that you can't have the expanded potential structure brings without constraints. These are not opposed forces, language enriches and constrains, and the durability of language historically demonstrates quite clearly that the value it brings outweighs the constraints it places upon us.

[Marsha]
From where I started this morning:  We can think and characterize reality only subject to language, which is conventional (sq) and says nothing that is ultimately true.  Language occludes the way things really are.   
 


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