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The 'talk' I'm referring to is the kind of communication she demonstrates in the video, not, obviously, that of her excellent blog.

It's there if you care to look for it.

Well frikkin done (on the Montaigne).

You're still not talking about grammar :(

Sure. Nothing I'm saying is incompatible with any of this so I'm not sure why the laboured histrionics. I even specified that human language works wit...

Interestingly, adding or talking away dimensionality is another possible way to do what grammar does. Chemical structural formulas, for instance, have...

Actually the passage I quoted above by Bateson on communication in cats was actually from a paper precisely on the topic of communication in dolphins!...

Scott Wilson - The Order of Joy: Beyond the Cultural Politics of Enjoyment Daniela Voss - Conditions of Thought: Deleuze and Transcendental Ideas

I'm not sure I'd call translation easy, or even familiarity with single languages for that matter. It may seem so to one practised in language(s), but...

Categories that could be grammatically marked could be literally anything. J+L provide their own examples: "Indeed, when we perceive the world, think ...

I mean types as specified in the paper linked to and described in the OP.

But I agree. The choice is not between grammar as mere syntactical rules or grammar-as-language-game. The whole point of Dor and Jablonka's paper is t...

So to this, perhaps the answer ought to be: no, but how he would go about his 'doing things with words' might - most likely - be different. I think to...

I don't think so. Grammar is more general than a language game. To be sure, both are governed by 'rules' (leaving aside the specificity of how a rule ...

Hmm, I don't think you're really engaging with the argument here, which turns on grammar as a parsing of types. Talk of 'worlds' is imprecise and shou...

Derrida was always clear that we could never 'escape' metaphysics, and that any attempt to do so would be all the more metaphysical for it. He definit...

Yep, fuck Chomsky. He's so quick on his feet to call out so-called charlatanism when his own contribution to lingustics has been to essentially mystif...

Exactly. The idea is that such kinds are naturally emergent, at is were, and not a function of any kind of pre-established harmony, if I can use that ...

Huh. Never come across Halliday before, but his stuff looks really cool. I can't speak for him of course, but I suspect that what might distinguish Do...

@"Banno"- here it is, I finally got around to it. @"Saphsin"- This is why I can't stand Chomsky (read the paper!)

Quasi-lycanthropic is the word you want :P Underworld was alot of fun for its time. I dunno how well they'd hold up though. Think I'm still a Blade ma...

Huh. I was thinking about it more in terms of quasi-vampiric Christians, which is a lovely thought, I think.

The lady mystics are the coolest (and the wildest): “While I was standing in prayer, Christ on the cross appeared more clearly to me while I was awake...

Mystical experience lol more like your brain farted and now you're trying to justify the smell.

No, no, you misunderstand, that's everything I'm saying I find excised from the Davidsonian understanding of langauge...

I mean it - as it only ever should be meant - in its Platonic sense: language as uncoupled from practice, from it's 'bodily instantiation' in real use...

I dunno, I'm still very suspicious of what I see as the disembodied view of language that you/Davidson have. I think this is particularly apparent in ...

Definitely - this is what Witty's account of learning emphasizes. But this is the problem with speaking of 'commensurability': the language of commens...

I should have said: he has a very thin and anemic conception of linguistic practice; at least, emaciated in comparison with Witty.

Sure, but that something is always a matter of more-or-less; more something, less something: and where we fall along that line is a matter of ingratia...

Because the lion comment reflects what I take to be the entire point of the PI - that our understanding of language is grounded in shared (or rather, ...

I suspect he would have spurned the vocabulary of commensurability altogether; I'm not sure you can reject the lion comment without giving up Wittgens...

You blasphemer you.

:D

You're being unfair to respectable books.

True, but neither in any half-respectable book not written by the adherents of an idiosyncratic turn of the millennium cult.

Some post-pagan tribal ritual.

I dunno, I quite like wielding joy aggressively. It's a much underrated way of approaching things - very few know how to deal with weaponized joy. It ...

Joy, OCD.

Can you provide a summary of McKenzie's argument, in your own words? We will help with homework, but not do it for you.

I think it's an interesting question to see where Hobbes might fit into all of this. I mean, the first and most usual criticism of Hobbes is that his ...

This is great! And my immediate thought is to relate this to the longer term dynamics of capitalism, in which certain established actors in the system...

Oh, right. Errr modship is great, you get to spend all your time thinking WHO WILL NEXT SUFFER THE WRATH OF MY BANHAMMER (while laughing maniacally) a...

Not to put too fine a point on it, but you come across as a bit of a hysteric (in the strict psychoanalytic understanding of it!), looking for the gra...

That said, yall should be warned against romanticizing what a modship entails - it's essentially forum janitorial work, and frankly the less one has t...

*rolls up sleeves*

Been slowly getting through the second season now - not quite as good as the first, but I still swoon over the whole aesthetic of the show.

We all have the little Hypatia(?) symbol/face next to our profile pics on the top left. Or, if you click on our profiles, under 'site role', it'll lis...

Did you type this with a straight face?

We made TL a mod and a bunch of snowflakes are #triggered