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language and ambiguity

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Mon, 09/14/2009 - 12:53pm.

I very much agree we don't need to be "against language" to be generative.  What we do need to do is to resist the inclination to aspire to an ideal of language as "objective," intended to communicate as unambiguously as possible, and instead embrace language as a source of and pointer to the kind of ambiguity that opens new possibilities.   For more on "definition," see "classifying living things ... or anything else."

 

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