Re: [xmca] The Ubiquity of Unicorns

[Wolff-Michael Roth <mroth@uvic.ca>]

Hi,


On 23-Oct-09, at 10:51 AM, ERIC.RAMBERG@spps.org wrote:

consciousness has developed.  David Kellogg has provided numerous  
examples
of how native Korean speaking people do not grasp basic concepts of the
english language.  Some of the low achieving students I work with have


I think, with Heidegger, Derrida, Rorty, Wittgenstein, Davidson,  
Deleuze, and others, that the difference between knowing a language  
and knowing one's way around the (cultural) world is undecidable.  
Concepts are not just concepts of English language, they are  
irreducibly interwoven with the way of life.

This is why Anglo-Saxons tend to have difficulties with activity  
(Tätigkeit, deyate'nost) and activity (Aktivität, aktivnost'). This  
is why there is no concept like Bildung, because in the conduct of  
life of Anglo-Saxons, there is no equivalent segmentation to which  
the concept could refer, and there is no inter-concept relation where  
such a distinction would be useful.

I do find the concept of "concept" problematic, because it is being  
used on this list without working out just what it stands for. (in  
general use, it appears like meaning that is somehow related to words.)

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