Slog - Comments on Words for Frizzelle, Nelson, Graves, Et Al http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/words_for_frizzelle_nelson_graves_et_al Proust has this to say: And when Bergotte's opinion was thus contrary to mine, he in no way reduced me to silence, to the impossibility of framing any reply, as M. de Norpois would have done. This does not prove that Bergotte's opinions were less valid than [M. de Norpois]'s; far from it. A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who contradicts it. Partaking of the universal community of minds, it infiltrates, grafts itself on to, the mind of him whom it refutes, among other contiguous ideas, with the aid of which, counter-attacking, he complements and... Copyright 2008 Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:39:35 -0800 Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:12:02 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by MvB I think I took a philosophy seminar with M. de Norpois.

Though, too, the situation reminds me a little of Lakoff's notion that the coherency of conceptual systems can bar particular concepts from being produced in the mind simultaneously. E.g. "compassionate conservative." Talk about not finding a foothold.

]]> MvB http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/words_for_frizzelle_nelson_graves_et_al#c780661 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/words_for_frizzelle_nelson_graves_et_al#c780661 Life Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:12:02 -0800