The User's Manual for the Brain Volume II by L. Michael Hall

Author:L. Michael Hall [Bob G. Bodenhamer & L. Michael Hall]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781845903831
Publisher: Crown House Publishing
Published: 2010-03-11T16:00:00+00:00

Mastering the presuppositions of the Meta-Model

The highest logical level in the Meta-Model alerts us to the structural framework of numerous presuppositions—presuppositions of, for instance, existence, time, and space. Tuning our ears to hear such presuppositions means learning to listen at a meta-level for the assumed framework above and beyond the words. To do this we have to step back, so to speak, from the words and in wonder about the presuppositions within the words.

We do this with other Meta-Model distinctions. For example, with modal operators of necessity, we learn to hear that a world of rules and laws (necessities) is presupposed.

“You have to get your act together.”

“Have to? And what will happen if I don’t?”

“Boys shouldn’t cry.”

“They shouldn’t? Why shouldn’t they? What’s the rule that forbids it? Who forbids it? What will happen if they do? What will that mean?”

In Chapters Twenty-One and Twenty-Two we will delve into the presuppositions of language that explore the assumptive framework of such language.

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