I don't care much for structuralism. Which is to say: I believe in it and am made worse for my belief. Structuralism is the tar baby of determinism. It offends one's sense of self so that one feels obliged to lash out against it (In the hope of invalidating it) but each blow brings only an increasing awareness of its inescapable truth. To my way of thinking we are what we think. I canno0t recall having a thought unexpressed through language. The language my thoughts are expressed in was developed long before my birth by complete strangers. So, who am I? If my thoughts are me, and said thoughts are all expressed in a language I had no part in creating, then to what extent is who I am dictated by the syntax of the English language?
It's enough to make a man turn to religion.
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