Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 1.5G2

[In speech alone talk, a person belonging to one thinkgroup may use the same parole (or word-sound) as a person belonging to thinkdivine, but generate a different langue (or word-meaning), because thinkgroup and thinkdivine compose two distinct symbolic orders.  That is why I call them “exclusive and interpellating”.

In hand talk, there were two symbolic orders.  One was common talk, where the iconicity and indexality of hand talk grounded the meaning of words (that is, words referred to existent things, even though the things may not be present).  The other was the Mythos and Logos, founded when iconic, indexal and indicative words referred to a condition where the signified things could not possibly exist.

In hand speech, iconicity and indexality grounded each word for both symbolic orders, eliminating the whole drama of “saying one thing but meaning another” that permeates both thinkgroup and consciencelacking in unconstrained complexity.

In short, there was only one world: the world that “I” belonged to.  If I wanted to lie, then I would have to simply lie.  Words could not lie for me.

In the Lebenswelt that we evolved in, think3(action2(conscience1)) were undifferentiated.]