Re: Ideas, language, and science

[John M <***>]

Dear Judith,
I appreciate your wise lines (and quotes). One correction I have:
(I delete the precedent to save archive space - leave only the phrases to be
addressed):
----- Original Message -----
From: "Judith Rosen" <***>
To: <***>
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 11:39 PM
Subject: Re: Ideas, language, and science


> I think John M. is describing one of the greatest frustrations of all
human
> interaction:
> SNIP
> (JR):
> Language is a way to express information and ideas; as such, it is only
one
> of many ways, and in the subset we call language, there are many different
> kinds. Is it limited? Of course! But that's no reason to stop using it.
<SNIP
> Judith

[JM]:
I think BEFORE we use language (I agree with you in using it) we should
clearly know WHAT to express. In the maze of a novelty, even not yet
formulated beyond reasonable doubt AND in 'available' words that are not
beyond reasonable 'meaning'-doubt we should use caution.
(The worst thing IMO is to paste formalism upon unsatisfactorily identified
ideas: they take away the healthy criticism, if the equations match.
Language-use cannot bridge such traps.)

John M