tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1651908162607091292.post3390352906605953140..comments2024-01-05T01:21:21.702-08:00Comments on <center>SPECULUM CRITICUM TRADITIONIS</center>: "...and each name gave birth to a new thought."skholiasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05410057905377189336noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1651908162607091292.post-11161031480362010062010-12-04T05:55:32.335-08:002010-12-04T05:55:32.335-08:00Having listened to some of the programme what intr...Having listened to some of the programme what intrigues me is how the deaf man managed to spend up to the age of 27 without coming to know that people were talking. Can this be true? The Wittgensteinian idea of the difficulty for ostensive definition of communicating 'now go on' was brought out when she was trying to teach the man to sign and all he did was mirror what she did. In the case of the deaf man it may have been due to the very late date of first encountering the teaching situation. I recall that the history of 'wild children' shows that if they are over the age of 10 when brought into human contact they will never learn speech even though the organs are organically sound. The hard-wiring has become inflexible. She, the teacher, had to be very creative in order to create context shift i.e. from mirroring to response.<br /><br />The general philosophical question as to whether what is going awry in the abnormal may inform as to the structure of the normal i.e. getting it wrong is equivalent to failing to apply a rule. This is the empiricist trap.ombhurbhuvahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07789523088428270027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1651908162607091292.post-81594313771298709712010-12-02T18:28:00.835-08:002010-12-02T18:28:00.835-08:00It's certainly an admissible parallel, Gary; a...It's certainly an admissible parallel, Gary; and just the sort of thing I tend to focus on. The other analogy I think of off the top of my head is Plato's philosopher re-descending into the cave.skholiasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05410057905377189336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1651908162607091292.post-75383954312198704892010-12-02T06:25:23.868-08:002010-12-02T06:25:23.868-08:00Do you think there might be a connection here with...Do you think there might be a connection here with the myth of Orpheus, the singer, descending into Hades to find Eurydice? Or with Goethe’s Faust entering the realm of the Mothers?The Ontological Nexushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17950312080786100753noreply@blogger.com