From: SQUONKSTAIL@aol.com
Date: Tue Oct 08 2002 - 18:33:11 BST
In a message dated 10/8/02 11:57:58 AM GMT Daylight Time,
todcoul@koncon.koncon.nl writes:
> At Tuesday, 8 October 2002, you wrote:
>
> >MATT: Actually, now that I think about it, reality is prior to language.
>
>
> isn't language also real? And if not, what does 'real' mean?
>
> >SQUONK: Experience is prior to language.
>
> do we not experience something when a person speaks to us? I would
> say so. And what are they doing, then, when speaking? They are creating
> an experience for us, are they not?
>
> what I'm on to, is this: often, reality is separated from us (as
> in the above, I feel). Why? We are part of reality, and everything
> we create is just as real - it is experienced by others.
>
> Thomas
>
Hi Thomas,
Experience is real and patterns of language are real indeed.
I have no issue with any of that.
But understanding is filtered through static patterns of which only a limited
variety are linguistic.
You and Matt and I may call trees by such and such a name according to the
formalities of our culture, but other cultures may evolve different patterns?
The source of patterns in both cultures is Quality.
No matter what name one may designate Quality by, it is the same for every
culture.
All the best,
squonk.
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