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

From:Ed Heil <edheil@...>
Date:Friday, December 3, 1999, 20:17
Bryan Maloney wrote:

> 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.
That's a much more reasonable claim than that Aristotle's logic is nothing but Greek grammar, and I certainly won't contest it.
> 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...
I've too little chest to thump here -- I'm mostly a "conlanger wannabe." Too little sticktoitiveness to do much more than produce a quick sketch or outline here or a few ideas for phonology there. --------------------------------------------------------------------- edheil@postmark.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------