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Politics : Actual left/right wing discussion
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To: Lane3 who wrote (8835)12/11/2010 7:02:15 PM
From: koan  Read Replies (3) of 10087
 
Well, I do appreciate the recommendation. And he does look like an interesting guy. Two things I would point out to you:

1) I am pretty confident I understand the difference between liberals and conservatives (in the way most liberals understand it) in the most important way i.e. how and what they understand. And common dictionary definition describes liberals.

2) This George Lakoff had a falling out with both Noam Chomsky and Steven Pinker. Steven Pinker is a much larger intellectual as regards the human mind than Lakoff and writes a strong rebuttal to lakoff. Chomsky is considered the top intellctual in the world.

<<In 2006 Steven Pinker wrote an unfavourable review [9] of Lakoff's book Whose Freedom? The Battle over America's Most Important Idea. Pinker's review was published in The New Republic. Pinker argued that Lakoff's propositions are unsupported and his prescriptions a recipe for electoral failure. He wrote that Lakoff was condescending and deplored Lakoff's "shameless caricaturing of beliefs" and his "faith in the power of euphemism". Pinker portrayed Lakoff's arguments as "cognitive relativism, in which mathematics, science, and philosophy are beauty contests between rival frames rather than attempts to characterize the nature of reality". Lakoff wrote a rebuttal to the review [10] stating that his position on many matters is the exact reverse of what Pinker attributes to him. Lakoff explicitly rejected, for example, the cognitive relativism and faith in euphemism described above.

Geoffrey Nunberg, linguist, UC Berkeley professor and author of Talking Right, weighed in on Lakoff vs Pinker in a post on The New Republic's web site.[11]

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