From: Ian Glendinning (ian@psybertron.org)
Date: Wed Feb 16 2005 - 18:05:52 GMT
Paul, Erin,
Language is more than words, surely.
Ian
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From: "Paul Turner" <paul@turnerbc.co.uk>
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Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 12:17 PM
Subject: RE: ID, again (was Re: MD Pure experience and the Kantian
problematic)
> 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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