On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 08:18:08PM -0700, Steven Brust wrote: > > But let us pass on to language. Can it simply be dismissed as > "subjective?" I'm not sure. My inclination is to say no. Language has at > least two important uses--first, it is how we think, second, it is how we > communicate our thoughts. This is really an aside to how this discussion, but I figure it's worth tossing out there just to get people to think a bit more... Language is one of the ways in which we think. Another that comes to mind is spatial - I make chainmaille and work leather for a living; I spend quite a bit of my time thinking spatially rather than lingually, and am rather aware of the process of translation from spatial to lingual thought that occurs in my mind when I'm talking about maille to another mailler. Tsarren