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

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...