In a message dated 3/13/10 10:39:09 PM, [email protected] writes:
> Reflexivity is between action and thought in the form of judgment - > evaluation > Thinking precedes thought, thought as proposition precedes idea, idea > precedes > action, and then thought in the form of judgment precedes thinking, which > precedes thought as proposition .... > I'm unsure what notions are in your mind with each word in those lines -- that is, the your notion as you say 'thinking', 'thought', 'idea', 'proposition' are unclear to me. I can imagine someone's saying, "Wait -- - thinking IS thought, an idea IS thought..." Or perhaps you mean 'thinking' to indicate an action, and 'thought' the product of the action. Or you may purposely choose 'precedes' instead of 'causes' because you don't think causation is a factor. The word 'proposition' stirs too many possible notions for me to be sure what you have in mind. You could mean 'plan/proposal'; or 'statement'; you could mean the words used to express a notion, or you could mean the notion itself as distinct from the words. You say the proposition precedes an 'idea', but in my ignorance I think of 'thought as proposition' AS an idea... When we try to communicate, it's important that we do everything we can to ensure that the notions occasioned in our auditors by their hearing our words are as clear as we can make them, that our notions as we speak are as near as possible replicated in the listeners' minds. This requires, among other things, that when we are using words with multiple possible interpretations -- i.e. notions that might reasonably arise in a listener's mind -- we make as clear as we can what our notion IS NOT. "When I say 'idea' I mean XXX, and I DON'T mean YYY." Insight into the possible misinterpretation of our words is essential to good writing.
