[lit-ideas] Re: Language, Justice and Social Practices (long)

Walter Okshevsky wrote:
> > 
> > "I would think that without some name, we would not be able to mark the
> > conceptual differentiations necessary for the identification and
> > understanding of any single concept."

Unless this is taken somewhat tautologously [ie. 'to conceptualise in
language we need a concept in a language'] it is surely false: consider:-
Walter enters a room empty except for a curtain draped over a chair. He takes
in its folds and crevices. He leaves. On returning he sees the curtain has
been shifted slightly - because the folds etc. are not the same. Yet though
this thought is easy and correct Walter lacks a 'concept' or 'name' to mark
out the "differentiations necessary" and would be hard pressed to describe
exactly what the difference was - just as we would be hardpressed to
describe, in language that conveyed it precisely to a non-observer, what each
of us might instantly take in as observable differences between two such
curtains draped over chairs.

Donal
Loondoom


                
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