Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 19:04:00 -0700
Subject: Re: ..cat


"This kind of crude reductionism is, alas, found all too often among
postmodern scholars. They start with the premise "All thought is
linguistic," which itself is a lie, and go on to say that everything is
stuctured like a language -- as Lacan's famous but meaningless dictum."

Have you ever tried to think without language?  All thought, as Peirce showed, 
is in signs.  And this is not limited to postmodern scholarship; modern 
analytical philosophy operateds on the same basis.  This is not to say that all 
thought is in words.  For example, I have yet to find any physicist who can 
explain quantum mechanics in any detail without the math (and most of the ones 
to whom I have spoken said exactly that).

Yours &c.,

Jeff Johnson			  "Amicus Socrates, amicus Plato,
Undergrad, Political Science		sed magis amica veritas."
Cal Poly Pomona					      --Aristotle



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