MD: The Linguistic Turn

From: Kevin (kevin@xap.com)
Date: Wed Nov 20 2002 - 22:52:33 GMT

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    Matt,

    I'm intrigued by the "Linguistic turn" but haven't quite been able to
    get my mind around it yet.

    To make the Turn then, it appears to require accepting the idea that
    *all* thought is linguistic. (The kind of thing that Jerry Fodor was on
    about, correct? Am I on the right track here?)

    All thought is linguistic. That would make the below statement make a
    lot of sense to me.

    Matt said:
    The "linguistic turn" that many contemporary philosophers have taken is
    the turn away from talking about mind to talking about language. Mind
    is a non-entity now (for these philosophers). Part of this turn is
    that, strip away language and you aren't left with mind, you're left
    with nothing."

    Kevin:
    If All thought is linguistic, why talk about the Thoughtless mind? What
    good are questions about Thoughtless Reality? How can we hope to
    understand Reality that is Pre-thought? Why try?

    Is this the general territory you've tried to steer things?

    With hope,
    Kevin

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