[lit-ideas] Re: Do ideas exist before being articulated?
- From: "Julie Krueger" <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 01:27:18 -0500
This doesn't look like such an enormous dichotomy to me. Why must it be an
"either/or" scenario? A dialogue, conversation, between the idea and the
linguistic, where each informs the other?
Julie Krueger
On 10/14/07, John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Pondering the conversation about what goes on before we speak, I note
> that two possibilities are in play.
>
> 1. Classical--We possess ideas of which we are partly or wholly
> unaware until they are spoken. Cf. Plato, Leibniz (rebutting Locke),
> Chomsky, Freud.
>
> 2. Modern--Ideas only emerge as we speak them. What goes on inside us
> is a confluence of pre-linguistic processes that crystallize at the
> moment we speak. Cf. Vico, Minsky,Klein a good deal of current
> research in such fields as psychology and political science that
> indicates that processes conventionally described as "emotional"
> proceed those described as "rational," which turn out, more often than
> not, to be after the fact rationalizations of decisions already made.
>
> John
>
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