A parasitological view of non-constructible sets

  • The genetic code, the primary manifestation of life, and, on the other hand, language, the universal endowment of humanity and its momentous leap from genetics to civilization, are the two fundamental stores of information transmissible from the ancestry to the progeny, the molecular succession, which ensures the transfer of hereditary messages from the cells of one generation to the next generation, and the verbal legacy as a necessary prerequisite of cultural tradition. Divergent terminologies direct attention to different pattemings; and finding a logically convincing test, acceptable all around, that can determine whether one such system of terms is superior to its rivals, is often impossible. Yet the slow processes of evolution presumably apply to human societies and their symbolic systems as much as to human bodies, so that when logic cannot decide, survival eventually will.

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Author:Frederik H. H. KortlandtGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1155640
URL:http://www.kortlandt.nl/publications/art067e.pdf
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2010/06/21
Year of first Publication:1985
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2010/06/21
GND Keyword:Sprachtheorie; Sprachlogik
Page Number:6
First Page:1
Last Page:6
Note:
Postprint, Korrigierte Version, zuerst in: Studia linguistica diachronica et synchronica, [Fs. Winter], Berlin: Mouton, 1985, S. 477-483
Source:http://www.kortlandt.nl/publications/art067e.pdf ; (in:) Studia linguistica diachronica et synchronica, [Fs. Winter], Berlin: Mouton, 1985, S. 477-483
HeBIS-PPN:228816475
Dewey Decimal Classification:4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache
Sammlungen:Linguistik
Linguistik-Klassifikation:Linguistik-Klassifikation: Biolinguistik / Biolinguistics
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht