| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Continued :Habermas and NLP |
| Posted by: | John Schertzer |
| Date/Time: | 31/07/2003 21:36:40 |
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Ryan, You're right, thinking is not always in words. I should have said "the way you link them *formally* and *explicitly* is based on presuppositions in language," meaning that what you explicate and the way you make explicit models is based on presuppositions you may be unaware you have in language. That is always the case. New language creates ways of undermining the effect of a specific language model, giving you another pp, but even a statement like "If you have not learned yet to disconnect your thinking from your acting you are severely limiting your ability to take effective action in the world" is a judgment through and by language par excellence. Also, it has been posited that language centers in the brain feed forward to the nerve structures supporting sensory organs, formatting expectation (filtering) even on what we have been calling FA (that's only if you want to get scientific, which is not my favorite domain). FA, as well as all behavior, is *trained* by language, not language alone, but in part, systemically. There is no acting without thinking, since acting is a form of thinking, just as thinking is a form of acting, whether it is conscious or not. At the same time, the idea of a know-nothing state, though it is something discerned by a thinker/speaker, is a useful fiction, and can be very useful to create for oneself. best, JS |