File spoon-archives/avant-garde.archive/avant-garde_1997/97-01-27.165, message 11


Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 10:41:58 -0400
From: ostrow-AT-is2.nyu.edu (Ostrow/Kaneda)
Subject: Re: thinking outside of language


>>The problem here is this definition of language
>
>Recently heard a Chomsky lecture in which he speculated:
>"We cannot dismiss the possibility that a future science of mind may dispense
>with the concept 'language' altogether."
>
Two things are being confused here, the first is perception and cognition,
the second is thought and representation. The problem is not how one
defines language but which functions of are its domain.




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