Hi Dr.d Although he called it "inherited primordial language", Chomsky proposed what I would instead call "platonic language structures" in view of the philosophies of Plato, Kant and Leibniz, this apparent in view of the rapidity at which language can be learned and communicated. Chinese children learning mandarin is truly staggering, if you have ever tried mandarin. I would add memory to the candidate list. This may be persuasive but is not a logical proof. A bit stronger is Rupert Sheldrake's massing of a mountain of data from empirical studies of memory and cognition orf past and shared expeiences.
Similarly the highly respected Willard van Orman Quine has described epistemology in my words as quais-magical rather than logical. In my own words, he said that finding the meaning of a sentence happens epistemologically almost as "bam, you're there." The platonic view makes understanding language simple, Instead, in my opnion, what I call the cult of materialism has blinded our understanding of the world and man so that platonism (implicit in Plato and Leibniz, but incomplete in Kant) is dismissed out of hand. But platonism is how we perceive and think. Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough ============================================================== -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
