[Ham]
Secondly, a human being in isolation is perfectly capable of
inventing his own symbols, such as musical notation, sign language,
mathematical equations, as well as coming up with a new language if necessary.
[Arlo]
That simply is wrong, and it denies every bit of evidence out there.
Maybe you should read up on Helen Keller to see if a "human being in
isolation" is capable of inventing a "language". There is also no
evidence that the few feral humans we've studied that any of them had
anything resembling a symbol system whatsoever.
[Ham]
How else could these conventions have been created in the first place?
[Arlo]
By human beings in social activity. Symbols are born only in the
mutuality of human interaction, never "in isolation".
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