[lit-ideas] Grasp the Grasp
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 00:42:51 EDT
Geary: "But what about verb words that are not gerunds? Is the noun 'hit'
derived from
a once metaphorical use of the verb 'hit'? and what of 'kick' and 'run' and
'balk' and 'bother' and 'stroll' -- were they originally nouns or verbs?"
Geary is against trying to impose his Aristotelian logic to the conceptions
of a Cave Woman. In the beginning was the illiterate word,
"Kick".
At that time, the cave woman brain needs not process that as either a verb
or a noun. All she does is form a 'mental' image of an abstract network of
connections that apply both to 'a kick' and the 'kicking'. Note that there
cannot be a kick without kicking or kicking without a kick. (The same for sh*t,
incidentally and for all the other verbs and nouns, as I can gather)
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