From: "T. Peter Park" <tpeterpark@erols.com> Reply-To: tpeterpark@erols.com
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--it's our brains that create the nouns, by perceiving certain bundles of qualities as holistic unities. Our brains do it in the first place--and then language reinforces this by "sanctifying" some of these brain-created unities with words--
The mechanism is no more mysterious than a child "deputizing" a doll to stand for his/herself in a storylike game. Thus, a certain sound from thenceforward will be "as if"-horse. What's basic is neither linguistic nor epistemological categories, but the twin functions of "as-if" & "not-as-if" ("as-if: [not-as-if]", actually).
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