Where: Art Primo SF
Event Date: September 6, 2014
Event Time: 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Location: 1124 Sutter St., San Francisco
Exhibit Dates: September 6 -
For more details: https://www.facebook.com/events/693664907374882/?ref=6&ref_notif_type=plan_user_invited
Lexical Features is a group show featuring contemporary mixed media artists Geso PVC, Kevin Umana, Pablo de Pinho, Pez CF, and Supe FMK. Opening reception: Saturday September 6th at Art Primo SF.
Curated by Art SF Blog
“Empiricist theories of mind (a version of Locke’s theory underlies what follows) take beliefs to be complex entities made up of simpler parts, call them ”ideas,” joined together by diverse mental operations. Ideas come in two varieties, simple and general. The latter are formed from the former by an operation of abstraction. Taking simple ideas as inputs, abstraction yields a general idea by intersecting the properties of the input simple ideas. In this way, the properties of general ideas are dependent on (and derived from) simple ideas. Note that by being intersective, abstraction is a subtraction operation in the sense that it deletes what is not common to the members of the group of simple ideas upon which the operation acts. Importantly, abstraction does not add anything to properties of a general idea that is not part of the simple ones that yield it.”
Hornstein, Norbert. The Cambridge Companion to Chomsky. Ed. James McGilvray. Cambridge, England: Cambridge UP, 2005. Print. p.147
“When we use sentences with concepts (semantic features), we show that we are conceptually sensitive to the features that their words have: even if we do not articulate the differences, they appear to configure our assumptions, presuppositions, beliefs and expectations. To be told that someone has painted a house is to assume – unless there is indication to the contrary – that its outside has been painted. To be close to the outside wall of a house is to near the house, while to be close to the inside wall of a house is not to be near a house. If in a cave and looking at its side, one is looking at a side of the cave, not a side of the mountain it is in. To look outside the cave at a mirror that reflects the outer surface of the mountain is, however, to look at the mountain’s side. Notice in these and other cases that human interests, tasks, and intentions are somehow reflected in the fine-grained features that distinguish lexical items.”
McGilvray, James. The Cambridge Companion to Chomsky. Cambridge, England: Cambridge UP, 2005. Print. p.213