12.

  Symbolic   fields   in   non-­‐linguistic   representational  

tools.  A  transcendent  comparison  procedure    
 
There  are  set  comparisons  that  are  made  in  order  to  clarify  
reciprocally   the   terms   of   the   comparison.   We   do   not  
propose  this  kind  of  thing  here;  neither  do  we  propose  the  
systematic   joint   investigation   of   extra-­‐linguistic  
representational  instruments.  When  we  deal  with  some  of  
them,   this   is   a   capricious   choice,   because   the   extra-­‐
linguistic   representational   instruments   are   to   be   used  
here,  to  put  it  in  a  word,  solely  and  exclusively  as  analyzers  
with  whose   help  structural  moments  of  representational  
language  can  be  made  visible.  We  proceed  on  a  large  scale  
approximately  like  the  metaphor  in  small:  he  who  says  of  
a   man   that   he   is   a   "parlor   lion",   only   touches   with   a  
comparative   glance   the   zoological   colleague   of   that   man  
because   he  thus  succeeds  in  a  simple  way  in  underlining  
certain  features  in  the  behavior  of  the  alluded  to  one  and  
thus  characterizes  him.  Similarly,  we  want  to  touch  with  a  
comparative   glance   some   non-­‐linguistic   modes   of  
representation  in  order  to  characterize  the  linguistic  ones.  
There  are  many  ways  of  representation;  we  are  as  far  from  
treating   them   systematically   as   the   one   who   uses   the  
metaphor  of  the  salon  lion  to  write  an  animal  psychology.  
We   only   want   to   confront   with   language   some   non-­‐
linguistic   ones.   Features   and   structures   of   which  
something  analogous  is  known  or  can  be  expected  to  be  
known   in   language   are   in   each   case   so   clear   in   the   non-­‐
linguistic  term  of  comparison  that  they  are  held  before  us  
as  on  a  platter.