Language, Culture and Mind

Independence or Interdependence?

Abstract

I start by displaying a detail from a painting by Veronese, an Italian Renaissance painter. This painting has different titles if you look for it on the internet, but one of  the titles is The Dialectic, and the detail that you see here represents one way of trying to depict the human understanding of the network of meaning within which we all live, and the way that as scientists and scholars we reflect upon language and meaning as a kind of web, which binds us together with each other, with other human beings, and a web which we can examine in order to foster our own cognitive creativity.