Re: MD Looking for the Primary Difference

From: hampday@earthlink.net
Date: Wed Nov 09 2005 - 23:14:39 GMT

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    Erin, Arlo, Scott and all --

    Recently I've noticed some rather bizzare expressions being recirculated in
    this thread which make no sense to me. Here are a few examples of what I
    mean:

    Erin on 11/7:
    > Case this is the kind of posts that I was referring to
    > when I said it frustrates when people argue against
    > Scott's theory with not taking into consideration his
    > reconceptualization of language.
    >
    > I don't have a problem saying that the tree
    > intellect is the same type as my
    > intellect but I what I don't know is the tree
    > perspective....does the tree
    > intellect not percieve my intellect?

    Arlo on 11/7:
    > Give me an example of a behavior that is not governed
    > by signs? You could say, I suppose, that an infant
    > "at birth" is completely void of semiosis*. In this
    > state, s/he is completely "pre-intellectual". But, the
    > MOMENT that the earliest associations are found,
    > between say a recognized face and a sensation of
    > "good", the infant is engaging in semiosis.

    I don't know what such terms as "redescription" (a favorite of Matt now
    altered to "reconceptualization") and "semiosis" have to do with the Primary
    Difference. And I certainly don't know what the intellect of a tree is
    supposed to mean. But it seems that we can now freely "redescribe"
    everything to make it fit a particular epistemology, thereby adding to the
    general confusion of what the MoQ or any other philosophy is all about. I
    wonder if this is Scott's notion of language as existence.

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