>>> What I take from Wittgenstein, and later philosophers like Donald Davidson, is that language is not a thing but a way of doing things in the world. As are emotions, in part. But don't we know this treatment of language leads us to the criticisms of purely functionalist accounts of consciousness? Just waiting for Quine's Ontological Relativism Bomb to detonate, Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html