--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com,
Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh@...>
wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, etaonsh
<rcom@...> wrote:
>
> > Chomsky also brought to the
surface discussion of the obvious
but hidden
> > effect of language (including
individual language) on thought.
>
> I thought that was Orwell with his
"Nineteen Eight-Four".
>
> roozbeh
>
I see what you mean, roozbeh, but
there is apparently a difference, in
Anglo-Saxon culture, between a
widely perceived reality and an
academically accepted one. Thus
Hitler is commonly perceived as mad
but this is not, as far as I know,
the official psychiatric position,
the latter not having being supplied
due, perhaps, to a lack of audible
demand.
>
Richard Comaish