Subject: Re: [percy-l] Re: animals, order, symbol, self-consciousness, and The Fall of Man
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 17:42:06 -0500
Dear Karey,
I half agree with you. I like your positive account of what language is
and I agree that your friend Ken has not adequately addressed this issue --
but I think you are mistaken (along with Percy) in the view that non human
animals (and indeed even so called inanimate rocks) don't participate in the
world of symbolic thought -- God's thought. Course if you had quoted me
even once I'd have forgone this quibble, but under the circumstances --just
kidding of course.
Jim Piat
----- Original Message -----
From: "Karey L. Perkins" <karey AT charter.net>
> To Ken and interested listeners --
>
> First of all, in both the e-mail below and previously, you (Ken D.)are
> disagreeing with Percy on the wrong grounds --
(snip)
> the animals come up in his argument but they
> really aren't what the argument is all about
(snip)
-- it is about understanding
> the nature of language, and hence, the nature of man.