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Andy, Tony This quote from Dillon [referenced by Donna Orange who I'm sitting by the window reading] seems relevant as an explanation of M-P's notion of sedimentation. "Sedimentation is the settling of culture into things. In our culture, the separation of the animate and the inanimate has permeate all things. it is, perhaps the most deeply entrenched of all dualisms; it permeates our language, our thought, and the things themselves. There is no "epoche" [bracketing] capable of freeing us in one act of reflection from millenia of sediment.; it is, rather, the work of a lifetime to form the "askesis" [training, striving] required to dig out from under the CONCEPTUAL weight of the dualist tradition." Andy, I see a "family resemblance" between your project of locating "concepts" within a developmental/historical con-text and Merleau-Ponty's notion of sedimentation as "conceptual" weight. Larry __________________________________________ _____ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca