In a message dated 5/10/08 2:09:01 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> On the other hand how do we know what the thing is until we have found > words to describe it? Are there wordless thoughts? I don't think so. > For openers, I'd like to hear you describe what you have in mind with the phrase "what the thing IS". Meantime, I suspect you'll respond to Mando that pain is not a thought. Or love, or terror, or fatigue, or... The assertion that all thought is in words is flat-out nonsense. Writers struggle to choose the best words -- how could that be if their thoughts are in words? How could you ever mis-speak yourself? Rock-climbers, chefs, chess-players, even tennis-players -- they're thinking all the time, just not with words. But then you, like Hannah Arendt, may resort to a circular justification for the assertion that all thinking is in words: "What those people are doing -- the chefs and chess players, and Mozart while composing, and painters while painting, et al -- it isn't thinking." "Why not?" "Because thinking requires words, silly!" ************** Wondering what's for Dinner Tonight? Get new twists on family favorites at AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/dinner-tonight?NCID=aolfod00030000000001)
