| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Continued :Habermas and NLP |
| Posted by: | doug |
| Date/Time: | 02/08/2003 18:28:40 |
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Nice hearing from you Doc, It seems to be almost impossible to avoid using cause-effect language even when you know that you are talking about systems that can't be reduced to cause-effect. I actually don't have a problem with this difficulty because I think it is tied into the nature of language to a great extent- Just like how we are forced to describe many complicated experience that happen in one gestalt with words that happen one after the other- talking about it breaks it apart (which is often so useful). In your book when you and Mrs. St. Clair speak in cause-effect language about representations and their relationship to behavior, I'm assuming it is for the same reason, but perhaps I shouldn't assume suchly. Just like reading "Mind and Nature"; Bateson so often resorts to cause-effect language even though he is explicitly making the point that mind can not be usefully viewed through such a filter. Doug |