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Re: CHAT: Synesthesia and conlanging (was Re: The Conlang

From:Bryan Maloney <bjm10@...>
Date:Friday, December 3, 1999, 19:48
On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Ed Heil wrote:

> Perhaps off topic, but can you support this? I know there have been > some offbeat claims (e.g. Alfred Korzybski) that "the limitations of
I wouldn't go so far as _Science and Sanity_ claims (indeed, a great deal of what Korzybski attacked as "Aristotelianism" is actually Neoplatonism), but I will say that treating "logic" as being somehow pure of grammatical and social influence is making an assumption that lacks sufficient evidence. Of course, one should take all my comments on this particular thread in light of how I have tended to respond to all of the "ain't we so wonderful for being conlangers" chest-thumping type threads...