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

Instinct)
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 12:40:16 -0600
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Perhaps off topic, but can you support this?  I know there have been
some offbeat claims (e.g. Alfred Korzybski) that "the limitations of
Aristotelian logic" are rooted in the accidents of the grammatical
structure of I-E langauges in general and Greek in particular, and
have caused all the ills of society, but other than that lunatic
fringe I've never heard of anyone writing off Aristotle's logic as
thinly disguised Greek grammar.

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Bryan Maloney wrote:

> On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Grandsire, C.A. wrote:
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> > language as a piece of art in its structure, not only its sound. Many
> > monolinguals see the structure of their language as the structure of
> > their thoughts themselves (and they just can't believe you when you say
>
> Ah!  You mean the way that Aristotle saw the structure of Greek, from
> which we have been so long burdened with his "logic"--which actually
> should be translated as "grammar".