English 103
Cerritos College
Post #1
One rarely stops to consider how language and pictures are heavily dependent of each other. Whether or not we are addressing/applying the right “concepts” as logician Russell would state, the fact remains. People have been trained to communicate with each other by using the idea to image approach for a very long period of time.
An example of this would be a baby. Doesn’t he start off as a clean slate? Yet everything he’ll encounter already has a name. That name will always remain the same for that object and therefore, it’s only a matter of time before the baby makes that discovery.
Adults play a key role during this critical language period because they use and reinforce extensive vocabulary both in the presence and absence of an object. At this time, the vocabulary may have no meaning until an object is shown followed by a word. Soon enough, the baby makes connections to words and their actual meanings. Ultimately, learning language or is it learning idea to image?
Gabriel Aceves
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Cerritos College
Post#2
Hello all,
I read and very much enjoyed reading your thoughts in regards to The Allegory of the Cave.
Indeed this excerpt raises a lot of questions and brings out many feelings. When I saw this was a fable- I immediately thought "Okay, so there will be a lesson of some sort taught here."
What I concluded is that we use our senses to understand our world. Although sight was the only sense mentioned, it demonstrates the importance it played for the slave and then, the free man. Whether in a dark cave relying on shadows or in the upper world, our sight enables us to live, experience, appreciate and reason.