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the symbol
Read, Dwight ANTHRO (Read@ANTHRO.SSCNET.UCLA.EDU)
Mon, 7 Feb 1994 13:58:00 PST
Lieber writes:
" (b) how it is the combinability of symbols,
NOT their unitary nature, that makes recombination processes and new analogies
possible."
Lieber rightly, even if unintentionally, finds structure critical. For
analogies are structures and have a logic--though a logic that it is not so
clearcut as predicate logic. This raises the question of the degree to which
categories and the way in which sets of categories are
and can be strucured gives a framework to what the "mental" part of what we
call culture (narrow sense).
D. Read
READ@ANTHRO.SSCNET.UCLA.EDU
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