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Date Posted: 09:31:38 07/18/00 Tue
Author: SwimmingUpstream
Subject: Re: IDEAS PRECEED LANGUAGE
In reply to: nik 's message, "Re: IDEAS PRECEED LANGUAGE" on 09:29:39 07/18/00 Tue

Greetings nik,

Of course ideas precede language. How else would the idea to communicate have arisen?

You and I think of course is correct, but some folks don't. Here is a "for instance" those folks offer -- the idea of
"distance" does not precede language because it describes a relationship between things that we have perceived
to be "apart" to be "individual", and this relationship is conveyed to us by the objects in their roles as symbols -- in
other words by a language we have created when we named the objects "individual".

Those folks argument becomes harder to refute when we make an error you made in your next few sentences:

Babies have ideas but don't speak. They communicate by actions but not the spoken word.

Actions ARE language in this context.

Kindest Regards

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