[lbo-talk] Leszek Kolakowski dies

[Miles Jackson]

c b wrote:
> Carrol
>
> P.S. I'm not going to attempt to argue this, but the notion that
> language has a history prior to and independent of human social
> history is also an idealist fasllacy.
>
> ^^^^
> CB: Definitely. Language and other symbolic thinking is the essence of
> humans' greater sociality than other species. Language _makes_ human
> social history as social as it is.
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--And also the other way round: Human social history makes language what 
it is.

Miles