Hi Ian, all Ain't it just about some guy or girl standing up and putting their argument and resisting trying to justify what they are saying by any religion, or divine right, or tradition, or power, or authority, etc, and just saying this is how I think we should describe and understand things, and its better than the other ways I know of, and it fits in well with this other stuff we agree about, and it seems to make sense of my experience, and your experience, and our experience, and look we might be able to give it a go, and we may even be able to use this approach to bring about stuff in a certain way that would be good for us, given what we value, and so I ain't no prophet, I ain't no king, I ain't your boss, I'm just a guy who makes up good ideas, I'm a god damn intellectual, and I can't make you do these things, but come on let's agree to do it.
Ta David M ----- Original Message ----- From: "ian glendinning" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 2:10 PM Subject: Re: [MD] subject/object: pragmatism > SA, you said to Matt >> >> By the way, I see language on the intellectual >> level, too. I see language as another kind of paint >> brush or musical instrument, poetry if you will. >> Language is a very creative intellectual tool. >> > > Agreed. But the point is it's a creative tool on the social level too > ... so in itself .... language, symbol manipulation, communication ... > does not help distinguish what is intellectual. > > Ian > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
