Craig to Andy: >> why is the intellectual level above the social level? > > The intellectual level evolved from the social level. Pirsig gives the > example of how concepts (4th) evolve from ritual (3rd).
I'll get there eventually. Most of my reading happens on the least comfortable seat in the house. >> Could not a being in isolation evolve intellect? > > Ludwig Wittgenstein offers an (anti-) Private Language Argument: > roughly, using language depends on the ability to distinguish > what is correct from what is in error; > an isolated person cannot distinguish between what is correct > & what they think is correct; > :. an isolated person cannot use language. > Whether this argument is sound & if so, whether it applies to intellect > as well as language, is controversial. I wouldn't guess that intellect requires language. Does it? Andy 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/md/archives.html
