In a message dated 1/8/02 4:04:08 AM GMT Standard Time, valence10@hotmail.com
writes:
<< Squonk wrote: "A switch to a verb based language would reinforce the
importance of recognizing that all structures are transient and in a process
of evolution."
I've never read this David Bohm... But how could anything
simultaneously be both 'transient' and 'in a process of evolution'. That's
like saying 'new and improved'... If it's 'new', how can be it possibly be
'improved'??? It can only be one or the other. >>
Language itself is both these things.
It may be used today and have evolved tomorrow.
When you say, 'That's like saying....new/improved' the analogy is silly.
When you contemplate the emergence and dissipation of species, the analogy is
profound.
And why must anything be one or another?
Surely this insistence is an example of SOM like classification?
Classification is precisely that which Bohm is trying to avoid.
All the best,
Squonk.
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