Reflections cont'd (2)

[Diane Frances Lesley-Neuman]

You are calling upon concepts and images built and generated by experience.
--
Diane Lesley-Neuman, M. Ed.
Linguistics Department
Institute for Cognitive Science
Hellums 02
University of Colorado at Boulder


Quoting "Mark P. Line" <mark at polymathix.com>:

> Diane Frances Lesley-Neuman wrote:
> > "Reality makes language intelligible.""Language makes reality
> > intelligible."
> > How about Carol Fowler and Direct Realism?
>
> I can see images in my mind when I hallucinate, and there's no direct
> realism involved. I can see images in my mind when I imagine a scene with
> my eyes closed, and there's no direct realism involved. Why would I want
> to postulate that there's anything special, much less more direct or more
> realistic, about perception? If direct realists had any *evidence* of
> something special, they wouldn't have to postulate it.
>
>
> -- Mark
>
> Mark P. Line
> Polymathix
> San Antonio, TX
>