S. R. Bayne recently commented on "Structure" -- a lovely word I was recently revising vis a vis the death of Levi-Strauss. I see him (Levi-Strauss) as a philosopher, when he wrote so much about structure. If we, scruples of Griceans, tend to be more of a 'functionalist' bunch, that's because we want to be _different_?
Bayne comments on 'isomorphism' ('we'll call it isomorphism' he charmingly writes). I was looking for an antonym for this. Of course allomorphism. Inisomorphism is never so euphonic.
Bayne is commenting at a very abstract level of argumentation for or against Russell's tropes on isomorphism of structural relations. You can't get more abstract than that!
Oddly, when Eve Sedgwick died, I wrote an obit, elsewhere, which I entitled, as I believe, "allosexual". She found that '-sexual' is allopathetic, as it were. There's homosexual, heterosexual, and 'allosexual'. She borrows the term from clever linguists (As I do allomorph).
But these are purely Grecian terms, whereas 'allosexual' is, alas, a pretty horrible 'hybrid' (of Grecian and Roman, that is).
More later, I hope.
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