Here is a sample issue that might arise in discussing the general features of the process of the generation of social meaning.
Discussions of how social grammars originate usually presume that this happens in a flat logical space. What happens if logical space is not flat, but has overall torsions and twists, or natural landmarks, or a built-in metric>
If the landmarks are themselves historical, could they be the classical or modern rhetorical topoi? This would rephrase the question about the historicity of the dimensionality and axes of logical space.
What if our being in logical space marks it, twists it, orients it? (Is there some analogue to the Merleau-Ponty's discussion of the lived body, but for logical space? What would the zero point be? Our native language? Wittgensteinian "we just do's"? Pure-self-relation?)
(c) David Kolb, 1 August 2001