Re: Non-linear / full-2d writing systems?
| From: | J. 'Mach' Wust <j_mach_wust@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 6, 2005, 7:04 |
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On Thu, 5 May 2005 23:41:07 -0700, Sai Emrys <saizai@...> wrote:
>> Not necessarily. Generativity and the use of arbitrary signs have been
>> reported by apes, for instance.
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>Then you'd have to admit they have 'language', unless you can think of
>another way to differentiate human language from theirs.
I admit they have, but only to a very restricted grade of complexity.
>> I only understand half of it, but this sounds as if you were claiming
>> that for instance this discussion could as well be expressed in musical
>> notes. How could that be (apart from inventing an artificial script that
>> uses musical notes for letters)?
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>How could a sequence of 0s and 1s express anything?
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>Same question.
Simple codes, not essentially different from what they represent, that is,
not different in the way human language ("speech", if you prefer) differs
from e.g. formal logics.
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