Dear Stan, lists, The problem here is a bit as when Collier thought all the world was "in the head" - for where is that head? in the world? in another head?
The same holds here: "the world will be constructed by each [tradition] via different models" - now, WHERE are those traditions? Seems to be two possibilities: 1) the traditions are NOT in the world they construct- but where are they then? - in somebody's head - and then where is that head? 2) the traditions ARE in the world - but then Stan does not have the direct access to them which he pretends - he must approach the traditions in the world via other traditions, and those, again, via still other traditions, in an infinite regress. Best F : S: I would not think NO cases, but, given different language traditions surviving simultaneously, the world will be constructed by each via different models. So, given the learned fact one one must not tease certain snakes, different traditions will construct different mythologies about this. Our own tradition, involving concepts of evolution and chemistry is particularly elaborate, requiring a highly educated priesthood to come up with an -- or even more than one -- understanding.
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