language is just a way of compressing experiences, for faster and shorter ,communication and sharing..
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 9:23 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I found the quote I was looking for on page 360 of _The Way We Think: > Conceptual Blending and the Mind's Hidden Complexities_ by Turner and > Fauconnier: > > "We see in these examples the falsity of the general view that conceptual > structure is "encoded" by the speaker into a linguistic structure, and > that the linguistic structure is "decoded" by the hearer back into a > conceptual structure. An expression provides only sparse and efficient > prompts for constructing a conceptual structure." > > You probably need their examples, and possibly the rest of the book to > be persuaded, but there it is. My take-away is that language is not > enough to represent concepts. That's not exactly what they said, but I > have other stuff supporting my belief, in addition to this. > andi > > > On Sat, May 11, 2013 11:38 pm, Andrew Babian wrote: > > I read Turner and Fauconnier's book on this a while back. There is a > quote > > from it I've been wanting to look up that had a deep impact on me and > > refers to stuff I've been harping on here. It is roughly that knowledge > > cannot be represented by language. I may not have it exactly, but that's > > what I took from it. Seems like no one here agrees with that, anyway. > > Dimitry, If you know what I'm talking about I could use some help, as I > > don't have my copy handy. > > andi > > > > > > Dimitry Volfson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Look Up: "Conceptual Blending" on wikipedia. > > > > > > ------------------------------------------- > > AGI > > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > > RSS Feed: > https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/3870391-266c919a > > Modify Your Subscription: > > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > > > > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/23628310-1d343b04 > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > -- Apotheosis - .... ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
