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>From: silber@orfeo.Eng.Sun.COM (Eric Silber)
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Subject: ,,Logos''(?)/Re: Daniel Dennett
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Date: 22 Nov 91 18:50:59 GMT
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In article <1991Nov21.231253.5737@husc3.harvard.edu> zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes:
  <long interesting debate with JW deleted>
>
>Sorry John, better try it again.  Language is a phenomenon just as surely
>as the material stuff.  If you can't account for reducibility of language,
>it's incumbent upon you to shut up.
>
 Does the above utterance place 'logos/language' into that sort of
 wonderland where critics declare that writing precedes speech or that
 ,,Logos'' precedes the physical/material world?  If so, then is the
 above utterance bound up with a commitment to meta-physical preconditions
 for any analysis?  Doesn't the debate on this thread center on a
 choice between two alternative world views, the one which is ruled
 from "beyond" and the other which is ruled by the phenomena which we
 can observe?


