
Ep. 290: Susanne Langer on Our Symbol-Making Nature (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Diskursive Language and Grammar and Syntax
There's a lot that she says about the characteristics of discursive language and grammar and syntax. But you use language in the dimension of time. And one of the things that a picture does, or some sort of pictorial representation, is it presents you with all the information simultaneously. You can't abstract a paint stroke out of a picture and think of that like a word that you took out of a sentence. It has no function outside of its presentation in that context.
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