LANGUAGE IN INDIA

THE GEO-MENTALS
Ranjit Singh Rangila

Preamble

The vision that offers a peep into a child’s tryst with knowledge creation has its obligation to receive the child the person as a poetic delicacy – as true a being like truth the eternal, and as creative a body (the matter) as the potential of mother earth.

To receive child in these terms, knowledge as a framework and as a frame of reference itself falls much short of the dignity of the being that child is. One requires the entire intellectual wealth, the wisdom that people created while building their civilization(s) to match and grasp the potential of child, especially if child is seen as little more than a biogenetic pack.

The Faith To Theorise

To theorise about child and Its so called problem of knowledge, one must learn to search for the primitive source of knowledge itself, because the problem of knowledge creation lies somewhere on the path of civilization making.

It is intellectual responsibility of a person interested in the life that receives child to realize that it is the earth that stands as the existential base before a person, and it is truth that defines the intellectual basis of civilization. No life is definable without the direct reference to the earth-nature and also without the guidance coming from truth-wisdom that civilization keeps enunciating.

The minimum wisdom that one may afford to receive child the person is that one can be careful to place wisdom at the primitive source and honour truth and earth by requesting them to play the central coordinates of all the life making practices that people live with – including, of course, receiving child at the birth. The Picture-1 has the conceptual architectureIt is fair to believe, therefore, that truth and earth in such a vision may play the central coordinates for theory building, as well as, for observation making.

It is possible to workout a general problematic of knowledge creation, wherein child’s problems in gaining and domaining knowledge are handled. And the second, that reality of life can be received and investigated at a level of abstraction that may otherwise be left for the play of metaphor. Seen in observational terms, to receive child in these terms in such a vision demands that a detailed scheme of things is conceptualised wherein truth and earth are honoured by placing them as the central defining coordinates of the observational method.

As such a scheme of things grows into a theory, may be within the framework of my vision of C-semiology, truth and earth play as the host coordinates for the knowledge potential of child in particular, and of all that human persons cognise, experience and live with in their life making practices, the wisdom as it is, in general. The expression geo-mentals is postulated to play a constructual role in the entire problematics of knowledge creation.

The Problematics

Ever since life began on the planet that people inhabit, truth and earth have played the most basic coordinates of all that human persons know and do in their life making practices.

The role of truth and earth has been growing into an even more fundamental one during the long time span that people among known societies have laboured through to build their civilization(s).

As it is natural in civilization making, this role has almost gone into the unconsciousness of the civilization to such an extent that people often do not even recall that truth and earth are playing the basic coordinates of the life that they live. Both of the coordinates, in this sense, are lying buried under the debris of the intellectual cultures that people have raised over the palate of their planet.

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