RE: ID, again (was Re: MD Pure experience and the Kantian problematic)

From: Paul Turner (paul@turnerbc.co.uk)
Date: Wed Feb 16 2005 - 12:17:55 GMT

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    Hi Erin

    Erin said:
    At what point are you putting them pre-lingual? i.e. do they have to
    produce a word to be considered lingual to you?
     
    Paul:
    No. In my experience, infants seem to understand words before they can
    produce them. But it is also my experience that they have to learn to
    understand the words, i.e., they are not born with a vocabulary or
    knowing the structure of language. Imitation seems the best explanation
    of early language development to me, but I'm speaking only as a father
    here.

    Therefore, in this sense, there is such a thing as pre-lingual
    experience and with it comes a distinction between experience and
    language and the possibility of a world without language. However, Scott
    has now said that by language he means something that molecules also
    engage in, so it is clear that Scott and I understand language to be
    different things. Human spoken and written languages, to Scott, seem to
    be special cases of something ubiquitous.

    Regards

    Paul

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