Language/Thinking: A query

[Patrick F. Durgin]

Problem here is the definite article.  Intuition is not extra-linguistic,
but the failure you point to is extra-(the)linguistic.  Language is never
singular.  Charles Bernstein:  "Thinking things the world."  And "language"
is a thing in and among other things comprising the world (of languages,
linguistics, discourses).

    Patrick F. Durgin

-----Original Message-----
From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
Date: Saturday, November 06, 1999 10:22 AM
Subject: Language/Thinking: A query


>
>Consider the old example:
>
>All men are mortal.
>Socrates is a Man.
>Therefore Socrates is mortal.
>
>Consider someone who understood the first two propositions, but
>who could not see that *therefore* the third was true.
>
>The failure of this person to make the leap from the first two
>propositions to the third is *not* a failure that takes place in
>language. That is, one of the most elementary moves of the
>intellectu is extra-linguistic or non-linguistic. It is an instance
>in which clearly knowledge exists independently of language.
>
>It is a failure of intuition. Faced with a failure of intuition no
>explanation
>can be made verbally.
>
>Comment?
>
>Carrol
>
>