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>From: onstott@a.cs.okstate.edu (ONSTOTT CHARLES OR)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: "Consciousness" in French
Message-ID: <1992Mar29.090132.25186@a.cs.okstate.edu>
Date: 29 Mar 92 09:01:32 GMT
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In article <45675@dime.cs.umass.edu> orourke@sophia.smith.edu (Joseph O'Rourke) writes:
>I just read that "there is no word for consciousness in French."*
>Surely this is false?  What about conscience, connaissance?  
>My French is not strong enough to evaluate this...
>
>*Ornstein, "The Evolution of Consciousness"

I haven't read this book, so I am not certain what he means by 
"there is no word for consciousness in French."  If I were to speak,
or write, to a frenchperson about consciousness I would use the
word "conscience."   If he was using some sort of historical view or
something like this, I can gurantee that the word "conscience" existed
after Sigmund Freud.  There are a number of french psycholgists/psychiatrists
who have  written on this topic.  Can you elaborate on his 
argumentation?  Also, the medical term for consciousness (he has
consciousness) is "connaissance."

BCnya,
  Charles O. Onstott, III

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Charles O. Onstott, III                       (onstott@a.cs.okstate.edu)
Undergraduate in Philosophy                   Oklahoma State University

"A man is a philosopher of genius only when he succeeds in transmuting 

the primitive and merely natural vision into an abstract idea belonging 
to the common stock of consciousness...The golden apples drop from the 
same tree, whether they be gathered by an imbecile locksmith's 
apprentice or by a Schopenhauer."
                                                       -- Carl G. Jung
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