
Ep. 290: Susanne Langer on Our Symbol-Making Nature (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Diskursive Symbolism
The act of symbolism is the act of picking out a thing, distinguishing this from that. That actually is the whole process of symbolization, that its this sort of ontological act. And emmy wocan get to the details later on, but she will say, abstractions, by the eye and ear, are genuine symbol materials. This will ultimately form a basis for discursive reasoning. Like visual forms are not themselves disc rhetorical, but they have the necessary ingredients in them to form the basis of discourses.
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