This is where those who rely upon thought using words and concepts alone fail. Other ways of knowing are needed…always have been, always will be.
On Feb 19, 2:44 am, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > It seems the periodic table extends far beyond 118 and the boffins > think there may be stable elements at very high number. I sometimes > think language might be a bit like this in that we struggle to fit > other than a few elemental strings of it together and need to keep it > stable longer in critical mode through understanding variable > influences like temperature and pressure (metaphors). Experiments are > now showing that information is transferred by mothers to offspring > even when they don't do maternal nurture stuff (crickets are > programmed to be very scared of wolf-spiders by mothers that have > lived with the threat and not by those that haven't). > Language does invent and get divorced from biology-reality, which pits > Sophism against truth, though inventive language also helps us better > understand and articulate reality, so this particular dichotomy is not > the end of the story. > > On 18 Feb, 15:53, ornamentalmind <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >http://corrosion-doctors.org/Periodic/Periodic-1.htm > > > On Feb 18, 3:12 am, Ian Pollard <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 17 February 2010 15:24, Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > What did she drop then Ian? > > > > Nothing at all, she runs around saying it over and over. We were wondering > > > is it was "stop it", but the jury is out on that I'm afraid. > > > > In all honesty, I am onside with the biological basis for language. Less > > > so > > > on the periodic table analogy. Grammar is quite mutable. For example: I > > > use > > > unprecursed pronouns in my writing quite often when opening a scene, it > > > can > > > create a nice lead-in. > > > > Chemicals on the periodic table are, by comparison, not mutable. > > > > Ian- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en.
