>>The peoples of Egypt, the Sudan, and much of East
African Ethiopia and Somalia are now generally regarded as a Nilotic
continuity, with widely ranging physical features (complexions light
to dark, various hair and craniofacial types) but with powerful common
cultural traits, including cattle past
>>Linearity. This come first, then this second, then this third. That's order.
The thought is a whole, but it is presented in parts; the parts are
presented in an order dictated by rules.
The rule is a convention, "arbitrary", cultural, based on a tradition.
There is no natural order in which to
>>CB: Is this that capacity to (readily and speedily)_ learn_ a given
syntax is innate and genetically passed on ? I guess that's what you
mean by "reflective".<<
I'm following you on this CB, and am not necessarily in disagreement
with you on the key points.
I was, however, pointing out that ho
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CeJ jannuzi
We have been over some of this before--that is, Quine, Chomsky, the
phoneme--but one point to remember here would be that at least with
early conceptions, syntax of natural language is reflective of an
inn
[Marxism-Thaxis] .
CeJ jannuzi
We could use abstract and arbitrary symbols or schema (tree diagrams,
for example) to represent a language's syntax (indeed, descriptive
linguistics did before Chomsky, and then the use of such for
formalization after Chomsky really took off), but I'm not at all clear
CeJ
>>CB: Ha ha. Egyptology has not completely failed; hieroglyphs have
been translated, etc. There's the _Book of the Dead_,<<
Which I'm sure you read everyday at lunch, right CB? That is,
afterall, why you and you
On 6/3/10, CeJ wrote:
> >>On 5/28/10, CeJ wrote:
> > Actually rules can't be rules without symbols, but are they symbolic?
>
>
> CB: Yeah, rules must be expressed in symbols.
>
> What do you mean by symbolic ?<<
>
>
> A symbol is something that stands for another thing which it is not
>
On 6/2/10, Ralph Dumain wrote:
> Lenin is a separate question from the Fromm vs Marcuse controversy. I
> will have to make another thorough study of Lenin's MAEC one day. My
> take on it is that Lenin's critique of positivism's phenomenalism is
> basically sound. Whether he missed something import
Cheikh Anta Diop
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheikh_Anta_Diop
Diop and the African context
In summary, modern anthropological and DNA scholarship repeats and
confirms many of the criticisms made by Diop as regards t
Well, do you deny that Alexander conquered the City in Egypt ? Or are
you a crackpot in ancient history . Aristotle was Alexander's teacher.
A mystical/esoteric conception of philosophy. No, it's based on a
Marxist conception of history. Diop was a Marxist. Or are you ignorant
of that ?
On 6/2/10
We have been over some of this before--that is, Quine, Chomsky, the
phoneme--but one point to remember here would be that at least with
early conceptions, syntax of natural language is reflective of an
innate cognitive capacity and genetically passed on in humans.
Chomsky though is a structuralist
It always seemed to me--from the very time I was introduced to
Chomsky's work in a philosophy of language class in 1982--that he
basically took the ideas of people like Carnap and extended them to
natural languages. Indeed, has Chomsky's conceptualization of
'competence' (an abstract ideal) ever
We could use abstract and arbitrary symbols or schema (tree diagrams,
for example) to represent a language's syntax (indeed, descriptive
linguistics did before Chomsky, and then the use of such for
formalization after Chomsky really took off), but I'm not at all clear
on how symbolic word or morphe
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