Bruce Nevin (950717.13:32 EST)
(Bill Powers (950309.0815 MST))--
The topic of this post is important to me. For various reasons that I
won't bore you with I have been and will continue to be very slow in
responding. (Four months, you will grant, is pretty slow.) The topic gets
out of hand very easily, so I will proceed in small stages. I hope you will
be patient with me.
When you name something, such as "jump", you are linking a word-
perception to another perception, so either perception can evoke the
perception of the same category. After you have named a few other things
like "John" and "in" you can construct sequences like John jump in.
I believe you mean by this something like the following:
When you use a word, such as "jump", an associative link of some kind
evokes another perception from memory. The reverse is also true: when
you experience the other perception, an associative link of some kind
evokes the word "jump" from memory.
In particular, I believe you don't mean to say the following:
When you use a word, such as "jump", to name a perception, you
create a
link of some kind between that word-perception and the perception that
you name by it. Once you have created this link, either the
word-perception or the other perception can evoke a category perception
that might be appropriately named the "jump" category of perceptions.
Prior to your naming that perception with the word-perception "jump"
the link between them did not exist. [The status of the category
perception is a bit mysterious.]
Am I on the right track?
Bruce Nevin
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