From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Wed May 14 2003 - 22:06:59 MDT
Devon writes
> I think that the majority of Americans (people
> less interested in the rigor of intellect and
> logic of a group like this as well as less
> inclined or able to analyze the details and
> structure of arguments being presented to them)
> are consistently tricked, duped, programmed - by
> a language that denies or regretfully forgets
> the major discoveries made by physicists in the
> 1920's and anthropologists ever since.
But that was prior to 1933 when we all got
straightened out.
> Namely, that there are multiple interpretations
> of every situation, i.e. light seem like a wave
> if we test it like this and a particle if we do
> it like this. I.e. peace loving hippies or dirty,
> jobless, commies i.e. "Jimmy Carter takes a cheap
> shot at president Bush!" or "Jimmy Carter, Tellin'
> it like it is." etc . . .
Curious how until 1933 humanity had not been yet
favored by evolution to adopt appropriate and sane
speech patterns. One might have thought that given
several hundred thousand years, nineteen civilizations,
innumerable tribes and nations and societies competing
with each other, better techniques of thinking and
reasoning were not stumbled upon. So the burden of
explanation must now lie with those who claim that
the ways humans think now and have been thinking
since 1610 are unfit.
(It is well to keep in mind that those societies which
produce the highest viable birth ratios, e.g. Europe
before 1910 and the United States before about the same
time, are the most fit. Today European biological
fitness has reached in some places the incredible 1.1
---unsurviveability to an extreme degree.)
> Maybe general semantics and a course of logic should
> be included in journalism schools.
Yes, it is indeed sad to see even young reporters who
lapse immediately upon graduation to the two-valued
prevalent aristotelian orientations, adopt bad s.r,
e.g., fail to adopt *structural* and multi-ordinal
semanitic relations, employ elementalistic terminology,
intensional definitions, employ undue generalization,
unanalyzed linguistic habits., to such a degree that
it's probably too late to re-educate the younger
generation with null-A non-habitual s.r, remove
semantic blockages,.
Lee
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