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 --- from list marxism2-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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