But there would be no relations, performative or other wise without grammar, as without grammar the signifiers are just a meaningless jumble of sounds.Number2018 wrote: ↑August 10th, 2018, 10:35 am The force, expressivity, and agency of language do not derive from its grammatical structure, they do not derive from a a combination of signifiers but from performative relations.
What Is Language?
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Is that possible that people can generate symbols in their brains? The real subject of all these processes is the ensemble of social, economic, political, cybernetic, and biological instances.
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non-linguistic forces.
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Um, yes. For a plausible mechanism, look up Chris Eliasmith’s Semantic Pointers.Number2018 wrote: ↑August 16th, 2018, 6:33 pm Is that possible that people can generate symbols in their brains?
I don’t understand this sentence at all. Care to re-phrase?The real subject of all these processes is the ensemble of social, economic, political, cybernetic, and biological instances.
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