Sunday, November 13, 2016

Prepositional metaphysics

See this FB IPS thread on the topic. Derrida is one par excellence, especially through the translations of Caputo, Freeman and Bryant. (And that little known, back-alley, guerilla philosopher theurj.) But they go 'under' or 'behind' linguistic prepositions to what pre-positions not only language but being itself. Viva la differance!

But to express that in language does indeed take prepositions, since they themselves function to pre-position other parts of speech in grammar. Take a look at cognitive science on image schema and basic categories to get a peek under the hood.

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