John E Clifford, On 06/11/2011 22:19:
Readymadeism is just the "common sense" view of the world, induced from every experience (so we are taught) in our lives and embedded deep in our language. When linguists (barring the odd Vedic version) came along and invented their science and its technology in English and German and French (and a bit in a few other essentially similar languages), that world view, if you will, got incorporated into the metatheory,
I think both these sentences are completely contrary to the truth. I.e. ready-madeism is not the commonsense view of the world, it is not induced from experience, it is not embedded deep in our language, and it got incorporated only into formal semantics that is based on logic and not into cognitive semantics based on language. While talk of lions may (*perhaps*) relatively seldom call for a departure from readymadeism, talking of Barbie or Monday or crimson or B-flat likely more often does. --And. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "lojban" group. To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to lojban+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban?hl=en.