Klarinet Archive - Posting 000563.txt from 2004/03

From: Tony Pay <tony.p@------.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Biologically Correct
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 22:20:43 -0500

In message <73D27734.40E35645.0072244B@------.com>
Elgenubi@------.com wrote:

> I don't mind these off topic forays occasionally. They are bound to happen
> on an unmoderated list on the internet.
>
> This one will NOT be settled easily, of course. Your problem is that you
> all are defining the expression differently. A scientist and biologist
> does not talk about 'correctness', period. He or she just watches and
> tries to describe what occurs, and hypothesizes a purpose. Judgements as
> to correctness come from humans acting human, full of feelings and opinions
> and cultural history. Important stuff, but it is not Biology.

For anyone interested in where this thread might be headed, there's a very
interesting book by Ruth Garrett Millikan called, 'Language, Thought and
other Biological Categories.'

It's a bit tough, though, and you might get on better another book of hers,
'White Queen Psychology and other essays for Alice'. Here are two quite
descriptive reviews of the latter:

http://ejap.louisiana.edu/EJAP/1994.may/chemero.html

http://www.vanderbilt.edu/~postjf/rgmrev.htm

Tony
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