[lbo-talk] Caudwell on on language's inability to reflect the changing nature of reality

[Charles Brown]

On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 10:15 PM, Eubulides <autoplectic at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 6:56 PM, Charles Brown <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> How does language get out of touch with reality?
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>>> E.
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>> ^^^^^^^^^
>> CB: Caudwell claims that language is fixed and reality is fluid.
>> Words are snap shots of reality that is a motion picture.
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> I would surmise that a critical-historical investigation of the
> linguistic practices of our species demonstrates that languages are no
> more fixed than than anything else.
>
> E.

^^^^^^^^^^^
CB: You might be correct, but to play devil's advocate to initiate a
small investigation , imitating Heraclitis, the Detroit River is very
fluid and changing, but our name for it remains the same for many
years. Or , my name is Charles Brown through my whole life, but I'm a
different group of molecules and otherwise changed from the beginning
of my life.

I suppose the more abstract the word away from the name...