[] Re: Language and Logic

Here's the other passage from Wolf's ''Proust and the Squid'' that keeps
coming back to me as I look back over my last ten years of web wandering:

| There are deeper meanings in these Socratic concerns, however.  Throughout the
| story of humankind, from the Garden of Eden to the universal access provided by
| the Internet, questions of who should know what, when, and how remain unresolved.
| At a time when over a billion people have access to the most extensive expansion
| of information ever compiled, we need to turn our analytical skills to questions
| about a society's responsibility for the transmission of knowledge.  Ultimately,
| the questions Socrates raised for Athenian youth apply equally to our own.  Will
| unguided information lead to an illusion of knowledge, and thus curtail the more
| difficult, time-consuming, critical thought processes that lead to knowledge itself?
| Will the split-second immediacy of information gained from a search engine and the
| sheer volume of what is available derail the slower, more deliberative processes
| that deepen our understanding of complex concepts, of another's inner thought
| processes, and of our own consciousness?  (Wolf, p. 221).
|
| Wolf, Maryanne (2007), ''Proust and the Squid:
| The Story and Science of the Reading Brain'',
| Harper Collins, New York.  Paperback edition,
| Harper Perennial, New York, 2008.

Best of Everything in the New Year to All !!!

Jon

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