[Xmca-l] Re: Covid 19: Getting the Name Right

[Edward Wall]

      If you’all want to get picky about names you might look here for some possibilities:. https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/types.html__;!!Mih3wA!QDqoHKfN9rsIen0hktwg62vWF_Zg0RnuNDpr6G3EFD42Kj1NDYzm2T7NEly6rlqhG6ZKwQ$ .

      In any case, I find the other name: SARS-CoV-2 <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html__;!!Mih3wA!QDqoHKfN9rsIen0hktwg62vWF_Zg0RnuNDpr6G3EFD42Kj1NDYzm2T7NEly6rlqWKjRnFQ$ > far more informative, far more relevant, and far more disturbing as regards the situation at hand. 

            Gadamer writes “Thus a person who wants to understands must question what lies behind what is said. He must understand it as an answer to a question. If we go back behind what is said then we inevitably ask questions beyond what is said.” So, perhaps, I have problems with a thinking that believes it has landed on the “correct” definition/answer (and all other thinkers are fools) as that may well entail, perhaps innocently, a curtailing of the crucial question. I find that the the answer 'COVID-19’ obscures a lot (and, to be fair, does some illumination). 

Ed
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

> On Apr 16, 2020, at  3:35 PM, David Kellogg <dkellogg60@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I won't pretend to you that this is on my night table. Someone recently sent me the following quote from Hegel:
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> “For although it is commonly said that reasonable men pay attention not to the word but to the thing itself, yet this does not give us permission to describe a thing in terms inappropriate to it. For this is at once incompetence and deceit, to fancy and to pretend that one merely has not the right word, and to hide from oneself that really one has failed to get hold of the thing itself, i.e. the Notion. If one had the Notion, then one would also have the right word.” (p.198) – sec. 329
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> Vygotsky liked to quote Tolstoy: Слово почти всегда готово, когда готово понятие (the word is nearly (!) always read when the concept is ready) but it seems to me that in this case he would have stressed the word "nearly". There was a long debate over what to call Covid 19 at the WHO, and many people (including Michael Lin at Stanford) opine that they got it wrong.
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> I think that they got it right, but that it took a while. I don't think it is 
> non-argument to point out that repeated attempts to change the name to "Chinese virus" or the nineteenth iteration of Covid or whatever are also motivated and not in a good way.
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> More importantly (because as Hegel says mere incompetence and transparent self-deceit are at stake in this instance) I think in most societies naming is a process--a child has different names at different times of life, and LSV is probaby wrong to treat naming as a single function of speech that is simply replaced by signifying and does not itself develop.
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> What disturbs me about the Hegel quote (and LSV's obvious enthusiasm for it) is that it seems to suggest that everything has, in the final analysis, only one correct name. But perhaps it all depends on that final analysis.
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> David Kellogg
> Sangmyung University
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> Book Review: 'Fees, Beets, and Music: A critical perusal of Critical Pedagogy and Marx, Vygotsky and Freire: Phenomenal forms and  educational action research'  in Mind Culture and Activity
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