Stephen C. Rose wrote:
Inherent perhaps. I do not think much can be explained regarding what
exists before we name things. Vagueness. A penumbra. Or as I would say, all
embracingly, reality. That would be the realm of firstness it seems. That
said, it seems to me that we keep things in mind verbal form so that
consideration from "firstness" can be inferred rather than always related
to a sign. There is a sense in which "in the beginning is the word" to coin
a phrase.
*@stephencrose <https://twitter.com/stephencrose>*
or “Grammar Recycled As Metaphysics”, to split another coin.
cf. “Grammar Reified As Metaphysics”
☞ http://stderr.org/pipermail/arisbe/2005-July/002839.html
Jon
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